Critter News
FEBRUARY 1, 2012
The bodies of seven sea lions with bullet wounds were recently found on the Nisqually River. The animal protection group Seal Sitters says a necropsy showed that the sea lion had suffered a shark bite and had twisted intestines in addition to a bullet wound. Investigators say they do not know who is responsible.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2015
A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Even if you do not see an obvious wound, cat or dog saliva, which is full of nasty bacteria, can still get into a bird’s eyes/orifices and will eventually kill the bird; it will just die more slowly and painfully.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2015
Can your hearts be so species-specific? If you love your cats so much, why don’t you protect them? It’s so much easier to delete a picture than to end the life of a mortally wounded cat-caught bird, like this Downy Woodpecker … who is alive, but not for long. It’s natural.”).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
Wounded birds were left to crawl away into the woods; sometimes, during breaks, children were encouraged to run across the field, scoop them up, and tear their heads off. What I want to know is: a hundred feet away, how can these people tell the difference between a crow and a raven, which is a protected species?”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Its great diversity of habitats hosts an incredible bird count of over 900 species, including Africa’s 2nd highest list of endemics and near-endemics (after South Africa). Ethiopia, a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa, has firmly established itself as one of Africa’s top birding destinations. Yellow-billed Stork.
Critter News
JANUARY 13, 2009
Protecting mountain gorillas in the Congo is dangerous work. Another ranger was wounded in the attack and a rebel was captured. Tags: virunga war congo gorillas endangered species. Just last week, a 33-year-old ranger was killed by Mai Mai rebels. That arrest has resulted in several leads in the investigation.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2013
You can notice in the above images how the Leopard uses her eye-lids as hoods to protect her sensitive eyes from the bright sun as she sprinted towards us. Finally when she arrived, she effortlessly scaled a tall tree and reappeared on an open horizontal branch where she proceeded to lick some blood from the Wild Cat’s puncture wounds.
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