10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2013

And so, most had been neutered, adopted out to soft-hearted landowners as odd pets, conversation pieces. No wait, they were, but they had experienced so much genetic drift and selective pressure that they now constituted a unique breed in their own right. Also, they were infested by a species of ear mite unknown to science.

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Goats Bald Eagle Fox Feral 160

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

The primary reasons for the decline of macaws and parrots are many but habitat loss due to logging; clear cutting for crops and cattle ranching; and capture for the pet trade rank among the most threatening. That’s right – birds eating clay. Wicked, right? Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Research Center 255

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

22, 2009 The writer is professor emeritus at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University, Long Beach. He’s right: I don’t care deeply about the suffering of animals I eat, wear or otherwise benefit from. Lerner Woodside, Calif., Mr. Steiner rightly rejects this view as morally flawed.

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New York Times New York Vegan Vegetarian 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

The single greatest challenge facing any book of science writing is balance. Otherwise, there would be no science writing, everyone would just go straight to the journals. They are right, I think, in saying it is perverse that we can kill crows but not coddle them. Pinyon Jay by Dave Menke of the US FWS.

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Humane Emotional Stray Dog Science 142

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2014

We nature bloggers were part of the scene, first as part of the seminal science carnival Tangled Bank and later with our own community carnivals like, of course, I and the Bird. That’s right…. Remember the blog carnival craze? We deserve our own toplist, don’t we?

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2003 2000 Reptiles 2008 260

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. But what many people fail to realize, and too often scientists themselves, is that science is elastic.

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 204

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

More than 150 bird species are known to have become extinct over the past 500 years, and many more are estimated to have been driven to extinction before they became known to science. Rueppell’s (facing left) and White-backed (three birds facing right) Vultures have worryingly leapt two categories from Near-Threatened to Endangered.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# Archaeopteryx went right back to being a bird again. f, Right pubis of the Solnhofen specimen in posterior view.

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 247

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. I do not have anything interesting to say about the Red-flanked Bluetail right now, but the male is a very beautiful bird. Possibly a survivor of siblicide (which would make it a killer, right?).

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 205