Critter News

JUNE 20, 2010

As the future of whales once more comes under global debate, some scientists say the marine mammals are not only smarter than thought but also share several attributes once claimed as exclusively human. From the AFP.

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Whales Whaling Marine Life Humane 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Whenever I come here, I am focused on birds, but I have had some good mammal sighting as well: a roe deer swimming across a pond (only its head and antlers visible), a pair of otters playing in the water, a curious (young?)

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 2, 2010: **The USDA and National Institutes of Health find animal welfare violations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; **the Catalan Parliament in Spain finally votes to ban bullfighting in the region; **the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, CA has a record year for marine life suffering from illness (..)

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AETA Marine Life Animal Welfare Wisconsin 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

Though all birds will be somehow impacted by climate change, I think it is important to note that not all will suffer. This is a Pika, a charismatic and beloved mammal found in high elevations in much of western North America. Will early-arriving birds suffer from having to endure late winter storms?

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North America Birds San Francisco Suffering 209

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Never let your pet near concrete until it is completely dry in addition to spoil the clean look of your new project, pets who come in contact with even slightly moist concrete can suffer irritation or corrosion of soft tissues. Anxious pets may chew on electrical cords and suffer painful burns or even electrocution. Secure your pet.

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Pets Dallas Mammals Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2012

Then again, there are several videos out there (like the one below) that show cats fearlessly confronting bears and suffering no ill effects, so maybe people should only let cats out when there is a bear to chase off? … a.

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Bears Cats Suffering Pets 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Or maybe something closer to home like the American Bird Conservancy or a wildlife rescue organization like the Marine Mammal Center or International Bird Rescue. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1.

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Extremist Oregon Wildlife illegal 148

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

I want him (I am not a sexist – simply, have never met a lady guide, although I have some among my FB friends) to know mammals and trees, too, but also local history and who and when made that hilltop citadel that we drove by. He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2012

There is a reason why birds (and mammals and large, predatory sharks) like alcids, albatrosses, penguins, and other seabirds are restricted to the poles or areas of cold water upwellings — tropical waters lack the ability to hold onto as much oxygen as colder water.

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Florida Cuba 2012 Bahamas 209

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

This all happened as I was suffering from the photographic affliction known as “light denial,” where I’m convinced there is still some light but sadly the day has ended and darkness reigns. Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect.

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Raccoons Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 201

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Insects ruled. We spent most of the rest of the semester dealing with grasshoppers.

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2001 New York City Birds Research 142

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or a mammal. The only difference in the next 8 days will be an earlier wakeup call, at 4.20, but coming from Europe and suffering from jet lag, it wasn’t as bad as it sounds. Being an absolute beginner in the New World, I wasn’t focused on about 95 or so regional endemics – but on every bird I see. Or even those pooie reptiles.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 132

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

We all thought the kindest approach would be to end her suffering, but then…she raised her head and looked directly at me. In mammals, maggots eat only dead tissue and are occasionally used to debride wounds. She chirped a quiet but definite message, and everyone in the room understood she was not done with life yet.

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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 229

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). I assure you that it’s a journey well worth the effort, not only for endemic birds and rare mammals, but also to interact with the wonderfully friendly and welcoming local people.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

No, to me the saddest part of this whole situation is that the National Audubon Society has been missing in action for years on what is one of the most crucial conservation challenges facing our native birds, mammals, and herps. Pretty standard. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2021

He was also apparently much disposed to laughter and is often portrayed with his mouth wide open; for this reason, he’s also invoked by sufferers of dental maladies such as toothache. But it’s for the lore concerning the weather on his June 8th feast day that Saint Medardus is best known today, by those who remember him at all.

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France Eagles Shelters Suffering 225

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 20, 2008

Virtually everyone agrees that: (1) It is wrong to cause a conscious sentient animal to suffer for no good reason. Causing an animal to suffer for no good reason is cruel, and our ordinary commonsense morality tells us in no uncertain terms that cruelty is wrong. Most people hold that it is wrong to cause animals unnecessary suffering.

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Vegetarian Meat Ethics Lacto-Ovo 40

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2012

Baby birds are different from baby mammals in some interesting ways. This is different from mammals. In mammal species where there is an overproduction of offspring, it is not uncommon for one of the offspring to be underfed so it dies. That is a signal that always says “I’m hungry feed me NAO!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Occasionally I’d drink way too much vodka and write my long-suffering agent long diatribes with the subject line SHALL I TELL YOU HOW MUCH I HATE BEING A WRITER??? Read Carl Hiaasen.”. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 246

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. I opt for the bird richest section of the lake, visible from the eastern dyke. The Greater Spotted Eagle is a threatened species.

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Greece Woodpeckers Boars Eagles 248

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

In birds, the cerebral cortex is proportionally smaller than mammals, which for many years led researchers to assume that they lacked the ability of so-called “higher” brain functions. This has all sorts of implications on learning and being more resistant to the mental effects of aging that mammals suffer from.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Rights Wildlife 203

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

And that means for the animal rights movement: Social entities like compassion, empathy and suffering are very important factors to motivate humans to change their behaviour. And the only way to totally alleviate that suffering is to not use the animal. And the only way to totally alleviate that suffering is to not use the animal.

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2021

Kai`s knowledge corner: The Cinereous Vulture is near threatened, with a “moderately small population apparently suffering continued decline in Asiatic strongholds, though numbers in parts of Europe increasing”, and an estimated global population of 7200–10,000 pairs. There are no bigger mammals around there.

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China ALA Fish Mammals 256

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Spot-breasted Parrotbill suffers a bit from having a contradicting scientific species name, guttaticolis , meaning “spot-throated” or “spot-necked” rather than spot-breasted. But then I find it hard to see a difference between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis either.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

I usually do not write about nationalists, mammals, Donald Trump, and leaf warblers (well, I guess I sometimes do) – but I will make an exception for the Yellow-Browed Warbler … … and the Dusky Warbler. If you are suffering from depression, you just have found another reason to go birding.

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Monkeys Birds South Korea Owls 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2024

It suffered a similar fate as Zuhak – it was sieged by Genghis Khan, and after his favorite grandson was killed in battle by an arrow from the walls, Genghis massacred the population of the city, earning the city the name “City of Screams” (Wikipedia). Even the mammals here remind me less of Mr. Trump.

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Afghanistan Birds Collecting Utah 158

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2013

It was the first battle in which the armies of these two Dominions (as they were then) had suffered heavy casualties, and the impact it had on the young nations lead to the day becoming the general remembrance day for the soldiers lost in the subsequent years. Image by Glen Fergus. Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike).

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New Zealand Campaign Mammals Suffering 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds. Many nocturnal mammals and birds such as the Kiwi would likely wholeheartedly agree. Fortunately, Haiwan Seaside Park in Shanghai has found a good solution.

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