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AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
The latest edition of the AVMA Guidelines for the Humane Slaughter of Animals builds on the original 2016 version, with sections on fur-bearing species and marine animals.
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Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. State law on the issue is murky.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
The “clickbait” title for this post could well have been “The gays are making our bears queer” but no, this is a book review, not a cable news show. It is however, a review with a high potential for offense, hurt feelings and other emotional drama that normally drives us all into fields and woods to watch birds.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2021
As shown by the photo, below, of McMullan and Merlin, his Eurasian Eagle Owl friend, McMullan is a rough-hewn 6’4” foot bear of a man; he describes himself as resembling a character from the World Wrestling Federation.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
There is something about a mature rainforest, for example, that cannot be replicated by any human. Humans have altered their habitat for hundreds of years, creating various new habitats that some aspects of nature have come to colonize. It bears an uncanny resemblance to the extremely common Great Kiskadee !
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 13, 2021
Here’s a quote about bird lungs from Britannica: “Himalayan geese have been observed not only to fly over human climbers struggling to reach the top of Mount Everest, but to honk as they do so.” You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. Now imagine you have the lungs of a bird.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2020
For two good reasons always remember to keep your distance from the nest: to avoid the disturbance of birds and abandonment of the nest, but also because this is an aggressive owl known to strike human intruders in the face.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. As with humans, you can tell the juveniles by not being grey on the head. A juvenile, with rufous wing edgings that will be gone once the bird leaves kindergarden. Tiger Shrike.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2013
Rehabbers have to grin and bear it during baby season; we raise incredibly cute wild birds behind masks, give them no human attention, and make sure they bond with each other and not us. “The great thing about raising an education bird,” says Lisa, “is that you can do everything you’re never allowed to do with the wild ones.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. And so it seems, given what he wrote: “Here you can penetrate anywhere, only not with the Gospels under your arm, but with money in your pocket, a carbine in one hand and a whip in the other.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
But the grasslands of eastern Montana bear a resemblance to their wildlife that goes beyond the mere evolutionary imperative of camoflauge. Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means. The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 23, 2011
As you read this, I am riding my trusty Grizzly Bear through the backcountry of Yellowstone National Park, helping my colleague Seagull Steve find some new birds. Birding by bear is by far the best way to view the park, although it seems to terrify the hoofed animals. Good day to you, my fine fellow birders. Here we go! 1) Be weird.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
While photographing the Brown Bears in the Russian Far East, a friend of mine, Jovan “Lucky” Lakatos, was with Michio Hoshino, Japanese-born nature photographer specialized in Alaskan wildlife and experienced in how to behave facing this apex predator. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. These birds are typically found in scrub and open habitat, how this individual was able to locate this field within the Northern Range is testament to the scale of human disturbance along the roadway.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2023
For starters, they don’t fly away from the moment they’re noticed by a human observer and more importantly, they sit very still for pictures. The closely related Lesser Antillean Flycatcher bears visual, geographical, and behavioural similarities. The Lesser Antillean Pewee on St. Lucia is sometimes called the St.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2015
Eurasian Griffon Vultures are flying towards the restaurant (occasionally visited by Brown Bear , too). The adult Griffons are used to humans and are not stressed by the visitors, but some nests are really low – the lowest being a mere 5 metres above water and chicks sometimes get scared enough to fall into the lake.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Because of its large contiguous stand of bottomland hardwood forest, Bayou Cocodrie National Wildlife Refuge was designated as critical habitat and serves as a corridor for the Louisiana black bear between Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge and Red River Wildlife Management Area.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2011
Yes, fellow birders, I keep a detailed list of all the species I have seen whilst I have been on the throne, peeing behind trees, or making like the proverbial bear in the woods. Dusky Grasswren has multiple entries as they seem to find a human squatting on a desert mountain fascinating. I take it to the toilet. I call it the Loo List.
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APRIL 27, 2009
Driven by compassion, Casey and Brutus take a yearlong odyssey to shed light on Yellowstone’s “island” population of about 600 grizzlies, hemmed in on all sides by roads and human settlement. Video “800 Pound Best Friend” – What if your best friend was a 800-pound grizzly bear? The show airs on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 9 PM ET/PT.
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Critter News
JANUARY 9, 2009
"The brute animals have all the same sensations of pain as human beings, and consequently endure as much pain when their body is hurt; but in their case the cruelty of torment is greater, because they have no mind to bear them up against their sufferings, and no hope to look forward to when enduring the last extreme pain."
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
It recently popped up before my eyes again, in New York Times reporting on the ‘insect apocalypse’ – the catastrophic decline in the populations of common arthropods that has gone largely unnoticed til recently, despite the fact that these species are load-bearing beams in our environmental infrastructure.
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MARCH 15, 2015
But bear with me for a second: this post presents a different context for a different squirrel. And while it also occurs in city parks and cemeteries within human habitations, it is not quite as tame as the urban Gray Squirrels of America, and I have never been able myself or seen someone be able to hand-feed one.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 6, 2008
I think that such haters can't bear a non-human being heroic. It begs the question of the uniqueness of humanity and, of course, themselves. Not other humans in general, but themselves. There are a lot of animal haters out there. Some people claim the second dog is simply going to eat the injured dog.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump. And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? . Are you still rehabbing birds?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2016
At 3-4 inches long , they rival those of the great Grizzly Bear, and allow the Harpy Eagles to go after prey unavailable to many other birds. ” While they can live in human-modified environments, they are threatened both by deforestation and hunting, and less than 50,000 remain in the wild. A Harpy Eagle. ”
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
The Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita is an abundant species with an impressive global range that stretches from the West of Europe across Siberia to Russia’s far East, just falling short of reaching the Bering Straits by a laughable 800 kilometres, a fact one individual apparently found too awkward to bear. Enter hell’s gate!
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Animal Person
JUNE 1, 2009
But " Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism " is a great look back at how we humans have managed to always find a way to consider ourselves unique, despite what the reality of the nonhuman world tells us. Here are some of my favorite passages. [S]ince
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 15, 2012
You vs. Cat” is the first tablet game designed for human and cat to play together. Cat-like reflexes will be put to the test when the human player launches up to five playing pieces onto the field where they tumble, collide, and bounce around. Humans aren’t the only species vying for gaming supremacy when it comes to “You vs. Cat.”
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10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2023
Most often encountered near to the village bearing the same name, this abundant grasshopper ultimately sprouts large wings and forms swarms which can decimate crops. In nature, nothing is without purpose; human intervention is what has turned a peaceful forest dweller into a demonic pest after all.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2017
The lack of human visitors that frequent the area, is likely to be one as well. Bear in mind, these areas do not smell like a rose garden, especially on a 100 degree Mexican summer day. The amount of insects that are prevalent is, I am sure, a huge one.
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FEBRUARY 2, 2012
And sun bears. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. If it were just the birds, I’d grab my bins and be on the next plane to Asia or Africa. But, there are other things out there in the jungle, things like leeches. And mosquitos. And leeches. And pit vipers. And leeches. And getting lost without a GPS.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
It bears mentioning that the name of the series doesn’t refer to the physical dimensions of the featured species, but the size of the tiny black-and-white illustrations of each bird.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2013
It’s either that or the Hindus are right, that our existence is a continuing chain of lives through re-birth, a system of action and reward, and Corey Finger’s former life was that of a panda bear whose biggest mischief was eating bamboo, while I was Pol Pot. Either way, it just ain’t fair !!!
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Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. But again, he's a conservationist, so none of this is a surprise. Chances are that in any given community, there's a river that needs to be cleaned up.
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MAY 15, 2010
The culprit for this surge in animal homelessness is a testimonial to these trying times: human homelessness. And limited public funding means that shelters have to rely on public donations to bear the brunt of rising costs for care and housing of these animals. And this all leads to the most unfortunate outcome, euthanasia.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
With no permanent habitation inside its boundaries, human disturbance is low. In addition the Selous Game Reserve is functionally linked with the 42,000 km2 Niassa Game Reserve in Mozambique, and this is another important factor that ensures its integrity. I think you could make a good case that this reserve is important.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.
162 Animal Ethics
MAY 4, 2008
If, for instance, it is determined that gravely mentally defective human beings and monsters born of human parents are not the kinds of beings who may possess rights, this bears on how we may treat them.
Animal Ethics
MAY 25, 2008
"The Puritan," Macaulay once wrote with condemnatory intent, "hated bear-baiting , not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." That, on the whole, is the Christian tradition.
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Animal Ethics
AUGUST 1, 2008
As omnivores, the population of human beings should, perhaps, be roughly twice that of bears, allowing for differences of size. The preciousness of individual deer, as of any other specimen, is inversely proportional to the population of the species.
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2008
What the utilitarian who defends human carnivorousness must say, then, is something like this: that the amount of pleasure which humans derive per pound of animal flesh exceeds the amount of discomfort and pain per pound which are inflicted on the animals in the process, all things taken into account. Is this plausible?
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Animal Ethics
OCTOBER 8, 2008
For, at least as both are usually construed, the only major difference between ethical egoism and act-utilitarianism is that the egoist is concerned with maximizing utility in his own case, so that only consequences which affect him bear upon the rightness and wrongness of his acts.
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