Critter News

JULY 31, 2009

The goal is to decrease the harm that sonar does to marine mammals. Meanwhile, the Navy is also asking NMFS to allow incidental harm and fatalities to marine mammals from training exercises in a 122,400-square-mile section of the Pacific Ocean off the Northwest coast. Tags: seattle navy marine life whales pacific northwest.

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Critter News

APRIL 8, 2010

But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals - which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet - could also suffer from heartbreak. Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species. And the psychological consequences of our aggression have compromised their will to live.'.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

“The overall numbers are still tiny compared with the original populations before whaling started, but the trend is at last in the right direction,” said John Calambokidis, a marine scientist whose research on whale movements and populations has just been published in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, concluded. "We Tags: extinction. This sucks. The findings were being released Monday at the IUCN meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith. Tags: dolphin.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2008

On the one hand, there is “the potential for harm to marine mammals,” Chief Justice John G. Tags: us supreme court whale sonar military. Not surprising. Roberts Jr. said Wednesday at a Supreme Court argument over the Navy’s use of sonar in training exercises off the coast of Southern California.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Tags: canada meat seals restaurants.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. Tags: oceans marine animals. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. But I may not find one.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 10, 2009

My hands-on experience is with small mammals/critters and cats. Tags: dogtown dogs Best Friends. I learned a lot from this episode. I don't know much about dogs other than what I read. However, this episode featuring Noche just emphasizes my view that dogs should not be euthanized for being food-aggressive alone.

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. Here they go again. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2009

At issue is the population of {the Cook Inlet beluga) whales, which were put under the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection Act eight years ago, which scientists argue hasn't sped their recovery: Palin begs to differ. Tags: beluga whale Palin alaska endangered species.

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Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In 2007, the National Academy of Sciences published a report calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to make a fundamental shift in its toxicity testing strategies away from testing on mammals and focusing increasingly on new, more accurate—not to mention, more ethical—in vitro toxicity testing.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2010

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Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. On the left, you'll see this: Concepts. Project Treadstone. Responsible Policies. More >> Animals. More >> Category. More >> Players. New York Times.

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Animal Person

APRIL 1, 2010

intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. Tags: Books Ethics Language animal rights Joan Dunayer speciesism.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. They primarily prey on the large mammals of the African plains, grasslands stretching from horizon to horizon. Turkey Vulture Wing Tagging – Charlotte Wasylik, Prairie Birder.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 3, 2010

When a mosquito bites an infected bird and then bites a human or mammal, it can transmit the virus. It can affect humans, birds, horses, dogs, cats, and other mammals. Tags: guest post. The virus traveled across continents because it easily infects birds. Mosquito-borne illnesses can be harmful to humans as well as animals.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. These chimps are healthy and well-fed. If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. But chimpanzees can abstract.

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Animal Person

JUNE 10, 2009

We are overfishing, over-trawling, and mutilating and slaughtering bycatch by the millions of tons (17-39 million tons/year, not including marine mammals, sea bids and some invertebrates). Tags: Current Affairs Ethics Food and Drink animal rights Bycatch Fish Fishing industry Overfishing Seafood The End of the Line veganism.

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Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). Tags: Books Ethics Language. But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

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Animal Person

MARCH 30, 2009

Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics. The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

Jentsch talks about the cost ("it's hard to put a price tag on") of protecting those like him, so we definitely know that the tactics of those who seek to defend animals are working on one level (economic harm, though once removed at least in this situation). Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans."

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tags: events. This year’s fundraiser event is being coordinated via Choice Productions along with organic catering. Annual Animal Care Gala in NYC originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on October 8, 2009.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Tags: national wildlife refuge , north america , parks • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! They may weigh in to make their voices heard… or not. Log in (they have an easy Facebook option) to spend your 20 votes and unlimited comments to shape the future of the National Wildlife Refuge system!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

What evolutionary forces have shaped their bodies for travel, what forces will be helping and hindering their journeys, and which scientists will be tagging, observing, and analyzing them as they make their way north? A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds. by Scott Weidensaul. Norton, Pan Macmilan (U.K.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 25, 2010

The analogy to mammals we rescue is interesting; it's a good point. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Is keeping animals because they're endangered any different from keeping them because they are homeless? . Can we ever meet the needs of fishes by keeping them in our homes?

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Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

I do think that in my lifetime greyhound racing will end, circuses will be animal-free, elephants and marine mammals won't be in zoos, and fur might even be banned. Tags: Activism Language. The whole development of society must be slow and continuous, the changes incremental. (

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