10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

The Eurasian Wryneck is the woodpecker that doesn’t look like a woodpecker, the bird with the portmanteau name that is also a medical condition (and which may remind some people of a Nora Ephron essay). The latter is a nonmigratory, African endemic with a scattered, limited distribution.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Oh, and if you want to impress someone or talk to an ornithologist about it, make sure to refer to it as sexual dichromatism. However, a life bulbul might be able to tell the sex (though not from the photos) – apparently, there are sex differences in the UV light range , which birds can see while we cannot.

China 189

China 2017 Birds Indonesia 189

Animal Person

JANUARY 20, 2010

Because Violet and Charles are chock full of medical issues, they have a handful of specialists. If he didn't know about feeding dogs vegan food, I might have brought him some of these articles and I would have referred him to Vegan Dogs: Compassionate Nutrition or to VegetarianDogs.com.

Vegan 100

Vegan Vet Greyhounds Meat 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For Engber, who dispassionately describes procedures most of the time, the "advances" in the medical care of humans are all well worth what he and other vivisectionists do to dogs and other sentient nonhumans. Medical schools, in particular, made ample use of them for education and research in surgery and cardiology." And for what?

Animal Welfare 100

Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100