10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). If you take a feral pigeon, bleach it and then batik it using the right colors, the result might be a Pink-necked Green Pigeon (1).

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. A pair of screeching Blacksmith Lapwings was flying around as six Burchell’s Zebras were quenching their thirst, suspiciously observing surroundings every now and then.

Wildlife 185

Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 185

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Not sure that I impressed them, I chose to bluff them and looked left and right for a suitable tree branch to pick. Attempting to bluff the bear in believing that they were even bigger bears, Hoshino suggested raising their hands, to appear taller. Zebra finch, Taeniopygia (Poephila) guttata. Shoveler, Northern, Anas clypeata.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

That is why it is such amazingly awesome news that the British Birdwatching Fair raised £242,000 to help conserve a species that could become the first recorded bird extinction in mainland Africa. Wicked, right? Here’s hoping the Liben Lark defies the odds and long graces the grassy plains of Ethiopia! Hat-tip to Stella.

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Ethiopia 2011 Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. Sniffing us.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 232

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 21, 2009

Since animals cannot be judged morally praiseworthy or blameworthy, the question of whether it is morally wrong for them to eat meat cannot be raised. But this reply is based on a confusion between the praiseworthiness or blameworthiness of a moral agent and the rightness or wrongness of the action of an agent.

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Morals Vegetarian Meat Lions 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. The two dogs walk right next to our rover and disappear in the dark. A little further, there’s a family group of Savannah Elephants with two two-year olds. Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 200