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Symposium explores psychological impacts of euthanasia, depopulation

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Speakers at the AVMA Humane Endings Symposium, held January 26-29 in Chicago, shared their personal experiences with depopulation of cattle and sheep for disease control and euthanasia of pigs after a fire.

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Birding after the Wet Season

10,000 Birds

It really makes you realise how sensitive the human body is to humidity variations. There had been cattle in the area and we kept coming across bizarre butterfly circles. All we can think is that they were attracted to an area where there had been cattle urine and they were getting the natural salts.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991).

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A World Turned Upside Down

10,000 Birds

I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change. Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. And that this one should choose to spend at least 20 minutes far from the reeds that usually hide it was a new experience for all of us.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

10,000 Birds

An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. How efficient.

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Birding Tiaozini again – sponsored by the local government …

10,000 Birds

Of course, Tiaozini also has Cattle Egret … … and the usually somewhat depressed looking Black-crowned Night Heron. A juvenile night heron experimented with getting across fences (note: neither fence nor heron were hurt during the experiment). I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too.

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