10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2014

The first weekend of August signals a psychological shift in temperate countries north of the equator. The sun shines on Colombia’s brilliant coffee-growing regions and abundant avifauna. July is the time to forget about school and celebrate summer. August is the time to start worrying about the imminent return to routine.

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Critter News

JULY 2, 2009

They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids. This is not surprising. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. Well, supposedly there's a film and book deal pending. His new trainer?

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2010

Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

She is not capable – physically or psychologically – of trapping and getting rid of one cat, let alone nine. Neighbor B tells her that his cats wouldn’t be happy indoors, that cats’ hunting is “natural,” and that he has no intention of keeping his cats inside.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

an animal can be psychologically traumatized, why in the world do we still wonder if it has any intelligence? They don't know what they are going to do with it because it is so severely traumatized and probably can't be released back to the wild. Here's what I'd like to know.if

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I think most would agree with that one, although there is the question of psychological harm, and activists are all over the map with that. First there's "What constitutes psychological harm?" My definition of violence would begin with the physical harm of living beings. and then there's "Is that okay with you?"

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It's called "Change Of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change." We received an email about a new book being released by Lantern Books. The author is Nick Cooney and he's the Director of The Humane League, an animal advocacy non-profit with offices in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington DC. In the author's words.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

in psychology from the University of Buffalo. Oriental Scops Owls are quite possibly my favorite bird at Nanhui. Bird-shaped cuteness. Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Estren, a Ph.D.

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Animal Ethics

APRIL 19, 2016

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, Human Rights Physician In " Why Justice for Animals Is the Social Movement of Our Time " recently published in Psychology Today , Dr. Ferdowsian argues that human and animal rights are not mutually exclusive.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2014

In this New York Times op-ed column , Frank Bruni predicts that our understanding of and concern for animals is only going to grow as scientific advances help us to understand the rich psychological and emotional lives of animals.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

and counseling to ease off the psychological dependence on food. Why do humans always have to get everything we want and we have to do it at the pain and expense of animals? And by the way, I can tell you the cure for obesity. Diet (eat less!), exercise (walk more!) Another young person indoctrinated by the animal researchers.

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Critter News

MARCH 5, 2009

This is a story of inhumane treatment and a story of psychological torment for these animals,” Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based animal rights group, said at a news conference Wednesday. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 21, 2012

The most common cause of lick granuloma is psychological, usually due to stress, boredom or a compulsive behaviour. Lick granuloma is a serious skin problem in dogs and occurs when dogs continuously lick a certain area, which then becomes inflamed and sore. It tends to be most common on the legs; however any area can be affected.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 6, 2009

They do the physical rescue, I do the psychological rescue. The team members then learn from Cesar as he teaches them how to rehabilitate the traumatized dogs from the moment they are taken out of their cages. “We We are from two different points of rescuing,” Cesar says of LCA. So together it’s a team, it’s a good pack.”

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2009

Preventing cruelty to animals, although an exceedingly worthy goal, simply does not implicate interests of the same magnitude as protecting children from physical and psychological harm," the appeals court said. The last time the court did so was over child pornography. I am incredibly angry at the last statement. That's just BS.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

They are not humans and it's not psychologically healthy for them to be treated that way. These families dress their monkeys, feed them at the dinner table and treat them like any other member of the family. I don't care how much these people love their "babies," these are wild animals that should be with their own kind. Remember Travis?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 15, 2009

A 27-year-old man who attacked his ex-girlfriend and killed her pet fish has been sentenced to two years probation and a psychological evaluation. I hope she has some kind of protection against him. From Pets News. PORTLAND, Ore. — Court documents say Donald Earl Fite III wanted to reunite with the woman in July, but she wasn’t willing.

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Animal Person

APRIL 22, 2009

How ridiculous is it that " On the Psychological Continuum ," to say nothing of an article against rabbit fur, is on the same page as Gabriella's Fur Den? So this was in my e-mail box this morning. The ads I see today have nothing to do with animal cruelty--the opposite is true. Perhaps there is a filter of some find at work.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 7, 2011

in Mass Communications and Human Psychology helped create her unique training tips for dog owners. Today we welcome top Celebrity dog trainer and behavioral expert Inger Martens as a guest blogger. She is an author, television and radio personality and dubbed “Best Dog Trainer in LA&# by Los Angeles Magazine.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2016

And, even more importantly because it may speak to the nature of human psychology, why ??? .” I love the title of that post. I wonder if that “one weird trick” trick is really effective at getting clicks.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The height of a birdcage can affect your bird’s psychology. A good deal of consideration needs to go into where you place your birdcage. Your fine feathered friend’s attitude and even health could depend on it. Here are a few factors to consider: Height. If you place it down low, your bird will think that you’re a predator and panic.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents. They switched eggs between Red-rumped Swallows and Barn Swallows.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

But, pets also become bona fide family members with which we establish genuine relationships—incomparable emotional bonds that can have extraordinarily positive physical and psychological impacts on humans. Below, Paul Mann, Founder and CEO of FETCH!

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

He was adopted out, but then quickly returned due to his poor psychological state. When Mid-America Boston Terrier Rescue took him into their care he was in horrible shape. Overweight and terrified, he simply cowered in the back of his crate. The family wanted a dog to play ball with, but all Bill could do was shiver and shake.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are also certain psychological advantages. Most of the birders in the audience for this blog, and certainly those who record their year lists here , use the Gregorian calendar. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

As Best writes, "Psychological and ethical change is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of the large-scale social transformations needed for creating viable democratic and ecological cultures."

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Pay attention to pet psychology, and you’ll find a lot more respect paid to your possessions in turn. Likewise, athletic, intelligent herding dogs will do far less damage to your home if you tire them out with exercise and engage their minds with challenges. With these top 5 tips, your home should stay as spotless as can be.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 10, 2010

Freedom Service Dogs are essential companions to disabled service members who have physical and psychological needs that are the result of their sacrifices, and make a tremendous difference in the lives of these veterans.”. FSD rescues dogs from shelters and custom trains each dog to assist a person with a disability.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2012

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. This post was originally published on 22 September 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives !

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological. At one time or another, in mountain villages, actual children may have been actually attacked by eagles — either adults defending their nests or juveniles who had not yet learned to judge the size of their prey.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 8, 2011

Mr. Bittman has some strong answers: evolutionary psychology, convenience and propaganda posing as marketing. Why eat produce that has no flavor? Why not go next door and grab a salty, fatty burger in a bag? It’s so much easier. Why do we eat so much meat? Why does the whole world want to eat like us?

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

The argument from brutalization, however, does not appear to postulate a logical connection between vegetarianism and inhumanity but rather a psychological one. Thus the strong form of the argument seems to assume the truth of the following psychological generalization. Perhaps the argument from brutalization presupposes 2.

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Animal Ethics

MAY 27, 2007

But in a Darwin letter of April 3, 1880, which I have, where he thanks Georg Heinrich Schneider for sending him a copy of his recently published treatise “Der thierische Wille”—a valuable contribution to animal psychology—Darwin seems to sum up his life’s work in one sentence: “Everything about the minds of animals interests me greatly.”

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. Then comes the introduction to Vlasak wanting to harm individuals who harm animals.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 2, 2007

Dear Keith, I work with Wesleyan University Professor Scott Plous (founder of Social Psychology Network), and I'm writing to let you know of a new web site related to animal protection. The site uses a unique interactive technology to offer "human-like" interviews that probe the ethical dimensions of diet and lifestyle choices.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 2, 2008

An Oxford University study published in the journal Nature found that wide-ranging carnivores like tigers and other big cats “show the most evidence of stress and/or psychological dysfunction in captivity.” ” (news article, Dec. 27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2012

The crux of nature’s revenge on our dreadful protagonists is that they get lost, and stay lost, leaving them psychologically broken and at the mercy of a world so outside their comfort zone that they bought ten thousand dollars worth of camping equipment to cope with it for three days.

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