Critter News

DECEMBER 30, 2008

There are 14,436 cases in the animal abuse database. You can search for all kinds of crimes against animals in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Spain. Tags: canada australia animal abuse UK new zealand us. Great research tool. Amazing work.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Bullfighting is a symbol of animal exploitation in which bulls are tortured and killed because there are people who find it fun. But we are against all forms of animal exploitation, and we believe in veganism as a response to such exploitation and as a way of life. Frente de Liberación Animal)"

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

This is not entirely unknown among domestic animals, but many domesticates have no living wild version. It is possible that Columbus brought Turkeys back to Spain, but if he did, he did not bring them from the Caribbean Islands he spent much of his time in, because they did not exist there. According to R.D.

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Critter News

AUGUST 31, 2012

The policy change comes under the new conservative Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy which is widely seen as opposed to all attempts to curtail the national fiesta in Spain. It is clearly a backward step for the welfare of animals in this country," said Silvia Barquero, spokesman for the animal defence lobby group.

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JUNE 15, 2012

So, yes, it was Spain. Specifically, rural northwestern Spain, at various points along the Camino de Santiago, an ancient pilgrimage route to the supposed burial place of Saint James the apostle and, before that, to the westernmost point in continental Europe, the supposed End of the Earth, the Finis Terra.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Following the fall of the Visigothic kingdom in Portugal and Spain after Islamic conquest in the 8 th century, falconry would only became a more firmly fixed Iberian tradition in the hands of the Umayyad rulers of Al-Andalus. A falconry scene from the Severa Bible, a Sephardic bible from early 14th-century Spain.

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Critter News

MAY 7, 2011

Mexico is notorious for its bullfights and lack of animal rights. Senators from the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, are working on legislation to ban bullfights and guarantee animal rights in Mexico, a lawmaker said. And not very optimistic. But, still, I can't dismiss it. From Fox News (blech).

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Critter News

JULY 28, 2010

The independence-minded region of Catalonia on Wednesday became the first on the Spanish mainland to outlaw bullfighting, a move some say is as much about nationalist politics as animal rights. Tags: spain bullfighting. The ban will take effect in the region, of which Barcelona is the capital, in 2012.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Critter News

JUNE 7, 2012

A beagle rescued from a laboratory in Spain and brought to the Los Angeles has run off and his humans are trying to find him. :-(. This is such a sad story.

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Animal Person

JUNE 6, 2009

You may know Jose Valle of the International Organization for the Abolition of Animal Slavery, AnimalEquality. We are currently doing an investigation on pig farms in Spain, including intensive and extensive/free-range farms (tho extensive ones are scarce since intensive ones are the majority in the industry).

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2010

In this week's podcast ending January 2, 2010: **The USDA and National Institutes of Health find animal welfare violations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; **the Catalan Parliament in Spain finally votes to ban bullfighting in the region; **the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, CA has a record year for marine life suffering from illness (..)

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AUGUST 2, 2022

I have my quibbles (Brown-headed Cowbird should be under ‘Cowbird, Brown-headed,’ not ‘Brown-headed Cowbird’) but it’s pretty good, indexing names, birds, animals, and scientific topics. . It is also a bit misleading.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.

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JULY 2, 2020

Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus. In a second, it disappeared into trees, down towards a rocky gorge, but not before I spotted it. Yes, yes, I know, not countable – it’s not a bird.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The massive beast charged through the fortified town of Tordesillas, central Spain, crossing a bridge over the River Duero and into a plain in a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages.

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Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

Parent L'Oreal said the difficult economic climate hit Body Shop sales in Britain, Spain and North America. When she sold to L'Oreal, with its questionable history and animal testing, it was a real betrayal of the company's practices and principles (in my opinion.) Tags: animal testing economics L'Oreal cosmetics.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

They feed on insects stirred up by the herds, at times sitting on the animal itself picking off ticks and other insects. The species spread north to the Mediterranean, reaching parts of Spain and southern Europe, spread along the Atlantic coast of France and, at times, even reaching Britain and Ireland.

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JULY 21, 2014

Department of Agriculture’s Animal Damage Control unit tried to remove them, sparking a fight with Mayor Washington’s neighbors, who also loved the parakeets, and the establishment of the Harold Washington Memorial Parrot Defense Fund. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. After he died in 1987, the U.S.

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Critter News

JANUARY 17, 2011

Every year on the night of January 16, the eve of Saint Anthony's day, the patron saint of animals, the paved streets of the small town of 600 people are transformed into a sort of racetrack in which the fences are burning logs. The flames are regularly doused with water to produce columns of smoke intended to purify the animals.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A Dutch court had suspended the government's export permit after an animal rights coalition presented a plan to release her to the wild in stages. This feels like a defeat because an animal like this really belongs in the sea and not a zoo," Bleker said in a statement. Morgan belongs in the wild, but not at all costs.".

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JULY 20, 2018

In 1987, only 27 were left in the wild and drastic action was taken to save the species: all remaining birds were captured, the California Condor was declared extinct in the wild, and a captive breeding program was begun, initially carried out by the San Diego Wild Animal Park and the Los Angeles Zoo.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. Of those traits, there are two kinds: The ones that are bird-like, but are not shared between birds and other animals because of a common ancestor having had the trait. Imagine you study history. Flight is an example.

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Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2012

and they are ending up in slaughterhouses or are being abandoned.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The move was in response from pressure from an animal rights group. THE MATADOR – one of the most abiding and traditional images of Spain – has been removed from advertising by a leading Irish travel company following a protest by animal rights activists. Tags: spain Ireland blood sport bullfighting. From the Irish Times.

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