Reddit Animals

MARCH 21, 2023

We have some farms with livestock nearby as well. It did not sound human so I am wondering what type of animal it may be. I am in the upper part of South Carolina in a developed neighborhood with lots of woods behind us. Genuinely curious what it might be. submitted by /u/boosterkeaton [link] [comments]

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2013

Unfortunately, contemporary people from the high Andes are beginning to see condors as the enemy; a predator that will kill and eat livestock. It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2022

Shrikes were practicing their own form of butchery – that is, their particular practice of impaling their kills from thorns and barbed wire for later eating – long before we began domesticating and slaughtering livestock on our own.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2010

The purpose is to make them happier as livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. A team based at the CSIRO aims to use the study to reduce stress and pain in livestock. The research is being funded by Meat and Livestock Australia. Go here for the full article.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

Clearly a win for the damn livestock industry. A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. It was a question of federal vs. state authority. And it was a unanimous decision. Read the full story at CNN.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 27, 2015

Not your typical veterinarian, he treats both wild and domestic animals, and when islanders need help with their pets and livestock, he’s the one they call. Scott Sims is one of Hawaii’s best-kept local secrets. people helping animals tv'

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2011

Populations are trending upward and there is new hope for the carrion eaters still dealing with the ravages of diclofenac, a drug used to treat livestock that vultures then consume, causing their death. Cambodia’s “Vulture Restaurants&# are helping to increase the numbers of three imperiled species of vulture.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2020

Farmers keep their livestock in this wetland also. Arriving before sunrise, we could already see the thick clouds on the horizon. Scores of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks circled overhead, these vocal ducks are often hunted illegally here so it was refreshing to see so many.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The neighbors had advised me, from experience, that planting trees without excluding the local free-ranging livestock would be an exercise in futility: first challenge overcome.) I started afforesting our church lot in 2016, just after we were able to fence it.

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Critter News

MAY 18, 2009

It's their way of acknowledging the impact of livestock on the environment. Not only is there reason to believe that livestock contribute to greenhouse gases, but meat is resource-intensive to produce. Tags: climate global warming europe methane livestock vegetarian.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2014

Thousands of animals have died from the immediate impact of the floods, but many more livestock and companion animals require urgent assistance. Catastrophic floods following three days of extremely heavy rain this month have left large portions of Bosnia and Serbia submerged and millions of people and animals in desperate need of help.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2016

It was placed on the Endangered Species List in 1973 , its populations dropping mostly due to hunting pressure from farmers who believe they kill livestock. Unfortunately, the range of the Andean Condor has decreased. Pesticide poisoning also remains a problem.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2017

This time of year, the cleanest of the effluent, or previously treated water is used to flood the nearby fields that livestock will later graze on. Each of them holds a very nice group of birds year round, and an increased number during the winter migration. This is where things start to get fun.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

My dog is a livestock guardian breed so when she saw the mouse I just said to leave it and now it walks right past her too she ignores it like the spiders, I made sure she was well trained. He stops when I turn on the light then keeps moving if I put the TV on. I've talked to him and I swear he looked right at me.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2009

By burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide — India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contribute more to global warming than the vehicles they obstruct.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 24, 2011

The humanitarian needs remain overwhelming but given the important role that companion animals play in the Japanese family and the important role that livestock plays in the Japanese economy, it’s important that we address the issues immediately,” said IFAW’s Disaster Manager Dr. Dick Green.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2016

Their wingspans can reach nearly 90 inches , and they have been known to prey on cranes and livestock. In fact, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology , “The Golden Eagle is the most common official national animal in the world – it’s the emblem of Albania, Germany, Austria, Mexico, and Kazakhstan.”

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 25, 2012

In this new series, we’ll travel with him across rural Michigan to care for every family pet and head of livestock in need of his expertise and kindness. Unflappable and unstoppable, this Doc routinely puts in 14-hour days and is a legend in the community. The Incredible Dr. Pol: Polnado Warning. SAT AUG 25 10PM ET.

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Critter News

JANUARY 18, 2011

He also introduced LB 306, otherwise known as the Livestock Animal Welfare Act. Tyson Larson introduced LB 305 on Wednesday, which would create a state meat inspection program, which would in turn allow horse meat to be transported across state lines.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2009

Wolves have been killing livestock in Oregon, and now they want the authority to kill them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2012

These big cats are a species under constant threat from poachers and farmers who fear that the leopards are attacking their livestock. Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is also home to a population of endangered and elusive snow leopards. But experts can’t protect them without knowing more about them.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

It's that if you don't have the funds, and you don't have the feed, and don't have the place to keep them, and they are old, and they are no longer going to work for what you need them for, it's a place for them to go," said Billings Livestock and Horse Sale's Jenn Parker. A place for them to go? Maybe then can call it Horse Haven.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2012

My friend Ingrid over at the Free Quark offers an interesting and valid argument in her post on the European Starling that “the biggest threat to any native species is our own voracious appetite for development, which reduces viable habitat for all species to a point where competition becomes exacerbated.”

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. Thanks to PETA's undercover investigation of University of Utah labs for bringing this issue to media attention. From the AP.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Syngenta advises users to “NOT place baits in locations which are accessible to pets, domestic animals, livestock or birds” or to “contaminate dams, waterways and drains with the bait or its used container.”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

” Given the vagaries of spring migration in our climate-changing world, perhaps this is the model that birders ought to adopt; but given how long it takes us as a community to decide whether that Ash-throated Flycatcher was a hybrid or what, we’d find out when to start our list for any given year about half a decade later.

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Critter News

APRIL 10, 2011

Despite last year’s agreement with agribusiness interests in Ohio to ban and phase out certain cruel factory farming practices, the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board (OLCSB) voted in favor of veal crate confinement. Good news.although there had to be pressure exerted from advocates. From the Farm Sanctuary.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Warrior Initiation” – By killing lions, Maasai warriors protect their livestock and officially become men.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

They feed from grain storage and spillage areas, livestock yards, and bird feeders. In North America and the Caribbean, they are found mostly in suburban, urban, and agricultural areas where grain, roost, and nest sites are available.

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Critter News

AUGUST 15, 2010

The rising consumer preference for more “natural” and local products and concerns about pollution and antibiotic use in giant livestock operations are also driving change. The surprise truce in Ohio follows stronger limits imposed by California voters in 2008; there, extreme caging methods will be banned altogether by 2015.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Over the past week, tigers have frequently lifted livestock from the villages outside Kaziranga, with a tiger killing a domestic pig in the park's Sildubi area on Saturday itself. "We found the ninth rib of the tiger broken and partially calcified. This has given credence to the perception that the animal had died in a revenge attack.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2013

The species also often comes into conflict with people over livestock predation. Habitat fragmentation caused by logging and the development of roads and commercial poaching are the two leading causes. The post Endangered Malayan Tiger Cubs Born at Busch Gardens Tampa appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.'

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10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2012

Unusual abundances of food items, e.g. arboreal insects, garbage, livestock feed, etc. Generally invertebrates when available, fruits and berries, grains and certain seeds during other times of the year. are also exploited.” ” So, do we have a more robust and adaptable population of starlings in North America?

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 2, 2011

Since 1944, Heifer International has provided livestock and environmentally sound agricultural training to improve the lives of those who struggle daily for reliable sources of food and income. But for many in the world who live on less than $2 a day, a cow is a living savings account, a source of milk protein and income.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Some huge livestock farms produce more raw waste than cities as large as Philadelphia or Houston. The US General Accountability Office (GAO) is not happy with the EPA. They've issued a report that throws a negative light on the EPA trying to ELIMINATE EVEN MORE REGULATION of factory farms. Deregulation is EVERYWHERE.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2017

At this end of the waters edge, quite a bit of livestock had had been in and out, leaving large footprints in the mud. There was an unusually large number of Ash-throated Flycatchers hanging around the water, which is pretty normal, but I never seem them actually drink from a water source.

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