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The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
Read more about these amazing rats and the work they are doing by visiting the full article here. Rats help save humans. Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB).
I came across this strange article about German research on which slaughter method creates more pain for the animal: the Western method of stunning or the Islamic method of a cut to the neck. You can read all about the results in the article. According to the researchers, the Islamic method wins. What an utterly grotesque project.
I looked online and all I could find was this article on The Vegetarian Site. Here's what they say about Trader Joe's eggs (definitely does not sound humane to me.) Any conventional eggs sold in our stores are in a brand name carton, not under the Trader Joe's label. But are they really free-range eggs?
The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. The articles clearly relate to some of the studies described in the text, but not all.
You can find the article here. This gloomy article made want to go birding in the Amazon before it is gone. The new assessment is based on models projecting the extent and pattern of deforestation across the Amazon.
I won’t get into the details (for there are many) in this post, but for those interested in learning more about this incredible (and personally significant) place, feel free to have a read of this local newspaper article. These two Muscovy drakes brutally battled for about ten minutes right in front of us.
Which allows me to focus on the habitats they frequent: But it was also a Vermilion Flycatcher that taught me that birds in cemeteries, in this case, Morelia’s Municipal Cemetery, are very used to the presence of humans. They can allow you some great closeups. As is normal with this species, the sighting occured under very low lighting.
No, this isn’t some kind of perverted link , but an article about a study in which researchers at Oxford University applied what we have learned about human relationships via social networks to study the social relationships of Great T**s. Fascinating!
There is no way you can read this article by Bill McKibben and not be afraid for the world’s – and humanity’s – future. That is, unless you are a climate-change denier in which case you are ignorant, stupid, or getting paid by the fossil fuel industry.
Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name? This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. birding tour company.
In Jason Crotty’s article this week, he used the common birders’ phrase “trash birds” jokingly, to refer to some trash cans painted with realistic bird images in Portland, USA. This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas.
The human and economic consequences were dramatic, and continue to be felt. These hurricanes prompted a personal interest in the impact of hurricanes on birds, so I did some research, which ultimately led to an article in the April 2018 issue of Birding magazine. Thanks to Dr. Joseph M. Wunderle Jr. , Forest Service.
Via John of A DC Birding Blog , I ran across an article about a recent French study that suggests that urban birds may be changing looks in response to selective pressures caused by city life. Still, it’s up to us humans, as architects and builders, to really put thought into how cities can best serve as biological communities.
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The authors are Bianca Lopez ( The New School ), Emily Minor ( University of Illinois at Chicago ), and Andrew Crooks ( George Mason University ), and the article is “ Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online.”. Why are birds a good proxy for broader human-wildlife interactions?
While preparing an article this week for a local newspaper on the nighttime denizens of Tobago, it crossed my mind that I never considered owls as a group, far less target species for any particular outing (except for a select few, upon which I shall expound here). Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl.
He said the federal government’s and Alaska’s state rules were, for the most part, okay; they were consistent and generally made sense for the safety of both humans and wildlife, and in many respects, coincided with his own views of protecting the native environment. How it is being affected by human intrusions?
Nevertheless, the fact of the matter is that federal listing has been an unprecedented success in saving threatened species in a way that localized efforts and appeals to voluntary human restraint simply have not. Private efforts are inevitably, almost by definition, atomized.
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I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which in turn relates to how we date some ancient sites. The details are complicated but the article is OpenAccess, so I’ll leave it to you, dear reader, to examine the paper to the degree you like.
Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. For example, the main article states that “At Lac de Grand Lieu, W France, birds commute 2–38 km between colony and feeding territories.” A juvenile male. The real thing: an adult male.
This article pretty much sums up how the two agendas are simply at cross-purposes. It spotlights the Humane Society, but I think it's a pretty universal comparison. Tags: corporate lies humane society agriculture agribusiness. Compassion is perceived to hurt profits.
I usually restrict my unfair jokes to humans. When searching for information on the Black-headed Sibia , I stumbled across a promising-sounding web page titled “ Uncovering the Fascinating Behaviors of the Black-headed Sibia “ However, the article itself disappoints. A weight loss strategy also recommended for humans.
There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. A good part of The Glitter in the Green is devoted to the history of how hummingbirds have been treated and depicted and valued or not valued by human beings.
Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.
This collection isn’t some ghastly memorial or symbol of human stupidity. If you feel like spelunking into stupidity and bile, have a read of the comments section of the Daily Mail article. And most haunting was the cupboard of mounted specimens of extinct species. New Zealand Bitterns. Bush Wrens.
The Humane Society began a campaign in March 2008 to get 600 university presidents to sign a pledge to prevent severe pain and distress in animals used in research. Here's a campus article about Northwestern University , one of the schools that have NOT signed. So far only 37 presidents have signed it.
It's particularly poignant considering the earlier article we posted about how their meat is showing up in Britain. Humans eating chimpanzees is akin to cannibalism, as far as I'm concerned. Apparently, they laugh to encourage social bonding.
Baby birds are cuteness personified, possibly even more so than other baby animals, including human babies, and pose interesting questions of survival and development. Baby birds may be separated from the nest and their parents because of natural occurrences (violent weather, floods) or unknowing human interference or predators.
A Spanish version of the following article appeared in the 9/4/11 edition of the Honduran publication, La Tribuna. Everyone talks about human rights and there exists so many groups that are either governmental or non-governmental who work toward that cause. He is also the Vice-President of the Honduran Ornithological Association.
According to this Technorati article , the Humane Society rated the states on their animal protection laws. BEST STATES California (best-yay!) BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.
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And it’s the subject of a new article in National Geographic by author and birder Jonathan Franzen. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds.
You should also be careful if you have a pet bird as they have sensitive respiratory systems that are susceptible to other human illnesses (such as colds). Tags: Care2 Articles. Continue reading at Care2. H1N1 and Your Pets originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on October 20, 2009.
In a unanimous decision, New Jersey’s Supreme Court rejected a broad challenge by animal protection advocates to the state’s rules on the care of farmed animals) but struck down regulations that regard husbandry practices as being “humane” merely because they are routine.
It's a horrible topic and I post news articles about the abuses from time to time. Apparently, there is a lot of argument out there than animal experimentation is even good for humans. A drug may work on an animal, but fail miserably on a human. Drugs are not always predictable from human to human even.
Last week there was a slew of articles about the agreement in Ohio between the farm industry and animal welfare activists to expand cage sizes for calves (veal), hens and pigs. This New York Times article argues that it could lead to other states following suit. Well, maybe, although I think there is still a long way to go.
Bea sent me a link to an article in Gourmet called " Humane Slaughterhouses ," by Rebecca Marx, that is absurd. They believe you can take a life that doesn't want to be taken in a humane way, and I don't agree. The animal is an "it," but I wouldn't expect anything more in this type of article.
I know it's more than that though.and I know it from an article in Best Friends Magazine itself. After watching this episode, I think death is often a more humane end for an animal than to be trapped for a lifetime with an animal hoarder. Here's one from PETA and another from the Humane Society.
He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. They complement Kricher’s text.,
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