Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The dolphin-therapy business has been booming, fueled in part by the rapid growth in diagnoses of childhood mental disorders such as autism. She now maintains that dolphin therapy boils down to "the exploitation of vulnerable people and vulnerable dolphins.". Tags: dolphin. From the Washington Post.

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4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 26, 2010

It’s so fun to watch the dolphins and dog interact through the glass. Dog and Dolphins originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on August 26, 2010.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

We had been floating, birding amidst a massive flock of shearwaters, surrounded by an aquatic city of Spinner Dolphins when Wilfredo spotted two small dark shearwaters flying away from the feeding flock. And it was full of Spinner Dolphins and birds. And it was a large mancha. It was immense! Wedge-tailed Shearwater.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2024

It’s usually dolphins and tuna that find and chase them to the surface, where the shearwaters lie in wait. It attracts many predators and Cory’s Shearwaters Calonectris borealis are the stars of the show. They gather in the Strait of Gibraltar in large rafts and watch out for the fish to show up.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The long-running dispute between the US and Mexico over Washington’s ‘dolphin safe’ labelling practice for tuna products is likely to see a WTO appeal, after the two parties together asked for an extension of the appeals deadline. From the Bridges Weekly Trade News Digest.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 12, 2009

The moving of Europe's biggest military exercise to the outer Moray Firth poses a threat to bottlenose dolphins, conservations have claimed. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS) said noise from warships' sonar could harm the animals. Tags: dolphin europe sonar military.

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Critter News

JANUARY 22, 2010

This is a good argument from PETA for keeping dolphins out of aquariums. (At Tags: dolphin marine animals aquariums PETA. At my book club last week, someone actually admitted she craves fish and chips every time she goes to the aquarium!

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fishermen and a teenage boy from an eastern Canadian town rescued three exhausted dolphins that had been trapped behind drifting pack ice for nearly a week, the wife of the town's mayor said Friday. Two dolphins followed the open channel immediately, but the third was too weak and tired, May said. "He

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4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 22, 2009

A dolphin baby boom is happening at Discovery Cove , with four dolphins giving birth in the past month. Discovery Cove is an all-inclusive family adventure where guests enjoy a one-of-a-kind opportunity to swim with dolphins, snorkel with rays and tropical fish, hand-feed exotic birds and relax on pristine beaches.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 12, 2011

Click the image to see the full article and video of an amazing interaction between a cat and a dolphin. Things like this always make me happy, it’s so fun to see such curiosity between two animals that would normally never meet. Doesn’t it make you wish we could all be so friendly?

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Critter News

JANUARY 23, 2009

The moment Flipper died in his arms, Richard O’Barry was transformed from a dolphin trainer into an activist determined to free captive dolphins around the world. And here's a little snippet for Gretchen, the animal hater at work, who wears everything having to do with dolphins, but believes we pay too much attention to animals.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 6, 2010

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

It's that time of year in Taiji Japan when they start slaughtering dolphins. You can read about Save Japan Dolphin's efforts here. It looks like there is at least some hope.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite my thrill about Desi identifying a gull we were still at sea and still without a whale, a dolphin, or any pelagic species. Though we had left Riis Landing at shortly after 1 PM and weren’t due back until 5 PM we were still without a single sighting of a whale, a dolphin, or much of anything by 4 PM. Bottlenose Dolphins !

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Critter News

JANUARY 9, 2010

Tags: dolphin marine life marine animals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Add 315 bird species, 42 species of mammals – including Vulnerable Irrawaddy and Endangered Ganges River Dolphins , 61 amphibians and reptiles – including Estuarine Crocodile , at least 150 species of commercially important fish and 334 plant species to the picture. Irrawaddi Dolphin photographed in Cambodia (Dan Koehl/Wikimedia Commons). *

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 10, 2018

Many believe they are just as smart as dolphins and apes. Many people don’t realize just how amazingly smart crows are. This infographic from Capital Garden Services looks at just how smart and it makes for a really interesting read.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 14, 2024

Integrity: The dolphin symbolizes swiftness, diligence, salvation, charity, and love. Its history reveals the symbols that represent the following qualities: Trustworthiness: The squirrel symbolizes providence for the future, dutifulness and trustworthiness.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 27, 2008

Once before, around the time of Plato and Aristotle, the dolphins began tentatively to approach man. In one, the philosophers join the dolphins and never return. John Rodman , "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 [spring 1974]: 13-26, at 26) Transcendence. There are several versions of this legend.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2013

It took me awhile, but I managed to get on quite a few, especially when the boat slowed down to go check out some Humpback Whales and a huge number of Common Dolphins. We estimated at least 3,500 sooties and over 1,000 dolphins. Pink-footed Shearwater Puffinus creatopus. That is Santa Cruz Island in the background. It was amazing.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. The cries of the dolphins are pathetic. From MSNBC.

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Critter News

MARCH 7, 2010

The law has been around since 1962 and it's the legacy of an albino dolphin named Snowball. Tags: captivity dolphin south carolina marine animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

From dolphins and dogs who are swimming buddies, playful cheetahs and puppies who are best friends, owls and kitties playing leapfrog and much more! Are you ready for hours of the cutest animal video ever? Then be sure to tune in to Unlikely Animal Friends over this Thanksgiving break.

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Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

They are basically portrayed as benefiting from the horrific hunting and capture of dolphins in Japan. Tags: captivity dolphin marine life Japan amusement parks. It is not a favorable portrayal.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

Or are the deaths of dolphins and seabirds in Peru caused by something more nefarious?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Thanks to it’s marine canyon it’s the place to see Sperm Whales, swim with Dusky Dolphins and New Zealand Fur-seals, and watch albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels. Formerly a fishing town it’s economy is now geared towards tourism, particularly ecotourism.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

The Yangtze River Dolphin (the mammals described here are no less fascinating than the birds), iconic in Chinese culture, had its habitat was destroyed by a combination of human-introduced factors, including the blocking of the dolphins’ echolocation systems by large ships negotiating the river.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It's a documentary about an annual Japanese dolphin hunt that occurs in the village of Taiji. Tags: oceans dolphin hunt Japan hunting. It's gruesome, bloody and disturbing. It has just been screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Here is a glowing review from Joel Reynolds with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I had spent the morning on Navarre Beach, walking the pier looking for sea turtles and dolphins, then making my way down the beach. Sometimes great birding days are not about all the birds you see. Some are great because of just one. A thunderstorm threatened, casing a dark shadow across the green waters of the Gulf, but rain never fell.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The guide is based on Sullivan’s composite photographic plates, which present whales, dolphins, shearwaters and petrels, alcids, jaegers, skuas, tropicbirds, gannet and boobies, flying fish, jellyfish side by side, as they are likely to be seen from a boat, though in all likelihood not in so much diversity and abundance.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2015

It was a pelagic trip organized by See Life Paulagics and it was a pretty memorable trip with five species of shearwater, Leach’s Storm-Petrels , Wilson’s Storm-Petrels , a variety of dolphins, some sharks, and a variety of other sea life.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2018

There were Atlantic bottlenose dolphins frolicking in the water, and eagles perching in the pines! But, I’d added the birds above to my life list – a good trade in my young mind. I returned to Savannah last spring and took a leisurely riverboat ride by the islands.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. The boat moves quickly past interesting things; Northern Giant Petrels , Buller’s Shearwaters , White-capped Albatrosses , New Zealand Fur Seals (I understand they will pause to see dolphins).

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Critter News

MARCH 16, 2010

There's about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary. Jacques Cousteau.

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