AVMA News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo.

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Animal Welfare Welfare Cage Free Tortoises 410

4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 6, 2016

One of the most popular breed in tortoise domestication is the Russian tortoise, also go by several other names like – Horsefield tortoise or Steppe tortoise etc.

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Tortoises Breeding Animal Pets 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). They live for up to 100 years.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 246

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

There is even a new species of tortoise that was announced as the book was going to press, although it’s been identified from fossil remains and is apparently no longer with us. Where once there were 13 species of “Darwin’s finches,” there are now 17. There are changes in where to find the birds.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Porpoises 279

4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 24, 2015

So what happens when a tortoise shell needs some help? Watch as he performs a bit of shell maintenance on some of the world’s biggest (but still precious) tortoises! Tune in tomorrow for the full episode on … Continue reading → The post Aloha Vet- Trouble in Paradise appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Vet Tortoises Animal Wildlife 100

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Is there any better story than that of animals becoming friends? Animals that wouldn’t normally hang out together? UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS. A baby hippo chooses a giant tortoise as a surrogate parent. Can animals really build friendships with other species, people, or even their own prey?

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Tortoises Lions Elephants Animal Friendly 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It’s a frustrating thing, knowing there are exciting animals out there to be seen and being stuck back at base. Even a Leopard Tortoise dropped by! I wasn’t going to be seeing a Cheetah on my ass back at camp! Fortunately, if I couldn’t go to the bush, the bush could come to me. Blue Waxbill.

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South Africa Tortoises Leopards Woodpeckers 145