10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 7, 2016
In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? This horrible incident has raised some tough questions indeed. The zoo, surely, carries responsibility for deficiencies in its enclosure. Finally, what of the audience?
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Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. The next step in the progression of competitive birding? The Olympics.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. I did that with Peacocks & Picathartes – Reflections on Africa’s birdlife (published by Penguin Random House South Africa ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. Picture being a Blackpoll Warbler being born in the boreal forests of Alaska.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2012
She’d then climb down my leg, waddle across the room, climb up Bill’s jeans, and bite him, once right in the middle of his back. Wild birds I’ve raised from tiny, featherless orphans demonstrate attachment to me, as would be expected for any young creature with a surrogate mother, even a weird, long-limbed primate mother.
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