Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research. Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. None of us is pure.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

Animal Person

JULY 22, 2009

But I hope you will agree that by not eating or wearing animals or products that use or were tested on sentient nonhumans that you know of, and by not participating in or promoting events that use animals as entertainment, you are doing a world of good for the planet and the creatures who live here.

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Vegan Feral Cats Spay Spaying 100

Animal Person

JULY 26, 2009

Who ever heard of a cupcake without eggs and butter in it? That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. Besides, when it comes to birthday parties it's not like my vegan kid would have anything to eat.

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Vegan Animal Rabbits Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

This means its parents did not abandon the incomplete nest, as they do when a potential predator is nearby: “Grey Fantails desert incomplete nests in response to the attention of predators [which we tested] by placing a mounted Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), a common nest predator, near fantail nests that were under construction.”

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2013

Peripatetic ornithologist Nick Sly has long been a friend of the blog here and has contributed such classics as Green-rumped Parrotlets from Egg to Adult and Forpus passerinus and the Ornithologists of Masaguaral.

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Panama Chickens Investigation Research 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Alternatively, imagine I set the dial to produce simple heat, like the kind that comes out of your stove to cook your scrambled eggs. The kind of energy produced by a cell phone signal is way more like the heat that cooks your eggs than like the scary radiation that comes form an H-bomb or X-ray machine or whatever.

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Mammals Birds Cooking Fish 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? not because of the waiting time as the study does not actually involve tiny traffic lights, unfortunately). ” So, lesson learned: tailorbirds do not appreciate horror movies.

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Burma Vietnam Birds Laos 229

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2013

To assess their populations, draw their blood, test them for lead, and discover what kind of impact feeding on gut piles might have on these iconic raptors, particularly the young ones, as hunting season begins in Montana. And Science requires Sacrifice. Do I sound facetious? I’m not. Thank you, brave Starling. I salute you.

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Eagles Tethering Wounded Science 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

Both Elk and songbirds have the same basic method of inseminating eggs, which is one of the steps in reproduction (but not by any means the first!), Songbirds grow the offspring internally for only a very short while, and then pop out an egg, which is then cared for over a significant period of time until it hatches.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandoning 177

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. The authors tested the idea that brood parisites benefit, in terms of fitness, by targeting species with the helper-at-the-nest strategy. They looked at fairy-wrens and cuckoos.

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 229

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2012

We can’t very well ask these birds themselves or test this in a lab, but there is a large body of anecdotal evidence demonstrating that individuals of these species really can have feelings for one another. After laying eggs, they have little to do with the upbringing of their chicks, leaving the male to handle things.

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Albatross Lifestyle Birds Raised 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Azure-winged Magpies fail to pass the mirror test, a test commonly used to determine self-recognition. While the source does not say so directly, it hints that this means the species is not as intelligent as Eurasian Magpies (which pass the test). Maybe the parrotbills just need to adapt and put their nests in trees.

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Finland Birds McDonalds Israel 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. They fly at night and end up in places you wouldn’t expect them.”. It breaks, attracting flies, which result in maggots that eventually feed the other chicks.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 162

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One was reported to have raided the nest of a Grey-throated Babbler , eating at least two eggs and possibly one nestling ( source ). On the morning of day 4 at Nonggang, I had a sore throat but a covid test was negative, so birding continued … And the female, as usual going for a more casual look.

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China Vietnam Monkeys Birds 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2021

The guide, one of the last offerings in the Peterson Field Guide series from publisher HMH, shows photos of nests of most North American species and describes nest structure, location, how the bird makes the nest, number of eggs, and what the eggs look like. Donna). ==. But craziness is not a requisite.

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Colombia Birds Bald Eagle Guyana 246