Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. Excerpted from the International Business Times.

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JUNE 20, 2010

As the future of whales once more comes under global debate, some scientists say the marine mammals are not only smarter than thought but also share several attributes once claimed as exclusively human.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2015

The findings of this research, as summarized by Discover Magazine : Zebra Finches are a good proxy for studying human speech. So researchers got a group of males good and liquored up (using juice with 6.5% They also believe their results demonstrate the bird’s potential for further studies of how alcohol affects human speech.

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Zebras Research Humane Groups 211

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JUNE 16, 2012

Here is a picture of many Cobalt-winged Parakeets and Orange-cheeked Parrots sharing some good mineral water without causing any harm to the environment: Cobalt-winged Parakeet and Orange-cheeked Parrot Here is another large group of Parrots and Parakeets flying without polluting the air: Dusky-headed Parakeets – Mealy Amazon Parrots – (..)

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DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I learned that Stout Cisticolas often stick together in small groups. One of these groups was in a small acacia shrub, while a Coke’s Hartebeest grazed nearby and a Black-shouldered Kite perched on one of the top branches. Rattling Cisticola. million years ago! Several larger, cryptic brown birds were also on the table.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2024

I usually restrict my unfair jokes to humans. Here is what the paper says: “In the first group, we added a blue, non-mimetic egg to the nest of the host, while in the second group we added a blue, non-mimetic egg and a peanut half-shell.” Judging from my experience in the human world, a very predictable result.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. It is the only federal research group dedicated to studies needed to manage the National Wilderness Preservation System. Thus, it prohibits cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, bicycles, and motorboats, except in emergencies.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Even group birding mostly falls in the category of “parallel play” Which is just fine with me! After all, no human contact need be involved. It was sitting on a marina walkway, so it was clearly acclimated to human presence.). Chatty birders, frankly, drive me a little crazy. Come as close as you like.

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Battery Humane Groups Experience 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

I’m a big fan of the antelopes, a group that is most commonly associated with Africa but which also occurs in Asia and, if you stretch the term to be cladistically meaningful, Europe and North America. By this I mean applying the term antelope to cover all of the family Bovidae, which would include the sheep, goats and ox.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Proposed solutions include creating glass with images that reflect ultraviolet light (which many birds can see but humans can’t), or that features dots or stripes barely visible to the human eye. Hopefully, someday, these groups won’t be necessary. There are larger-scale ways to address the issue, too.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. Within group, all males copulate with all females.” ” (HBW).

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MAY 10, 2015

These subspecies can be divided into two major clades, the domesticus group and the indicus group, with the indicus group occupying south and parts of central Asia. Members of the indicus group have often been regarded as a separate species in the past, and some taxonomists still tread them as such today.

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MAY 27, 2020

We later saw another group of 19, and finally a distant flock of 52. With a reduced level of human interaction, the birds in this patch of forest seemed relaxed. We, as humans must strive to be casual, passive participants in life. As they reach adulthood they acquire the hallmark rich iridescent blue. Variegated Flycatcher.

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Trinidad Pelicans Humane Fish 264

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APRIL 27, 2022

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.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.

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Camels Whaling Whales Apes 235

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JULY 3, 2012

A group of Wattled Cranes in the Okavango Delta Wattled Cranes are the only African cranes with all-white necks, rendering them unmistakable in the field. They can reach heights of up to 5 ft 7 inches, taller than many adult humans. www.youtube.com/watch?

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AUGUST 13, 2014

And the odd: If you’re in Silver City, NM, stop in for a dish of Yellow-billed Cuckoo Gelato at Alotta Gelato, which just won the “Birds Mean Business” award from local Audubon and conservation groups. Humans won the evolutionary race in the long run, but Neanderthals seem to have pioneered the use of birds as a food source.

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San Diego Penguins Ohio Geese 223

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Signaling theory examines communication between individuals and groups, within and across species, focusing on whether signals–communications containing complex information–are honest or deceptive and how the exchange of these signals impacts the individuals involved and the larger group or groups to which they belong.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Finches didn’t make it across Wallace’s Line into Australasia until humans helped them along, but they did accomplish at least one remarkable transoceanic voyage on their own. More on that in a moment. And back to finches. And yes, the grosbeaks.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

The sitting duck of a crow was surrounded by a group of teenagers who were not eco-friendly. Sometimes the human capacity for both cruelty and compassion can balance out in the life of a single bird. Somehow one day Russell ended up standing in the parking lot between them, his wing broken and hanging.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana Compassion Rescue 241

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

At Bird Uganda Safaris, Herbert and his team established a project Saving Primates through which they have been raising funds to support these groups with food relief, seeds to plant, and will further continue supporting the with more skills in various services that are demanded by tourists.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Tours groups that I guided to Ethiopia ten years ago had to endure very basic accommodation, almost no surfaced roads and low levels of service. White-rumped Babbler A near-endemic, this attractively-scaled babbler is not uncommon is small noisy groups in woodlands and thickets. Males have dark heads whereas females sport sooty ones.

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Eritrea Ethiopia Africa Mammals 275

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JUNE 18, 2013

But when you think about it, climate change might be more important to the people who read 10,000 Birds than a lot of other groups of people. Also, these human-occupied area are probably full of toxins and other impediments to normal use by wildlife. Climate change “mitigation” is rather human focused.

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Maryland Penguins Birds Wildlife 267

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

There is evidence that toxoplasma leads, in humans, to an elevated risk of mental illness and depression. The traditional, supposedly humane answer to the glut of feral cats has been institution of “TNR” programs – trap, neuter, return. Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

Handing out T-shirts at the registration desk with a summer intern from the Field Museum (one of the conference’s sponsoring groups) gave me a good feel for who was around and what ornithologists are like. Exhibitors ranged from book publishers to purveyors of telemetry equipment to local bird and wildlife groups.

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San Diego Ostriches Chicago Colorado 217

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AUGUST 19, 2022

I did a bit better with the Phalaropes ; while I only had one encounter, it was with a medium-sized group, and they seemed quite willing to let me take their picture. Among my many encounters was a pair of adolescen t Black-necked Stilts , doing what adolescent humans also do… showing off, and fussing with each other.

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Mexico Breeding California Groups 237

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The human world is on the move to where the money is. As we have gone through this exercise of finding the story, as birders who have realized the importance of conservation, we have paid a great deal of attention to solutions and why we, as modern humans in a society Lincoln would not or barely recognize, need prairies.

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Chickens Illinois Nebraska Iowa 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Birding here is a joy, further augmented by the world’s most intact mammalian megafuana, fascinating tribal cultures, breath-taking scenery and the cradle of human history. Vangas, asities, mesites, Malagasy warblers, ground-rollers and cuckoo-roller are all mouth-watering groups with very special members.

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MAY 27, 2015

This time it is the Old World that has misnamed a group of birds, or in fact several groups. As noted in their entry the Handbook of the Birds of the World, they are unusual in their close association with palms (hence the name) and in building mud nests (in palms or human buildings).

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MAY 19, 2012

Edward’s Pheasant courtesy & copyright Tom Friedel This is an acute concern for the World Pheasant Association (WPA), whose mission is to safeguard all the 286 species in the pheasant group.

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JULY 18, 2013

You may not realize it when you look at those bizarre looking waders with the massive bills and the vacant expression, but you’re looking at a group of birds that has inspired humankind for literal centuries. It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part.

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North America Charlotte Birds Miami 249

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JUNE 11, 2013

they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. We were able to spend hours sitting right in amongst super-groups of 500-600 Geladas that just carried on with their daily business in total oblivion to our presence.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 171

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Peterson’s big idea, succinctly stated on page 68, is as follows: “I believe that morality appears as a predictable response to group living, and we can therefore expect to see clear signs of full moral behavior appearing much, much earlier than the recent start of human evolution.&#

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Morals Animal Humane Litter 139

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AUGUST 4, 2013

In Germany, it is a very polarizing species, as it is very common on the North Sea shore – where it breeds – but a scarce visitor to the rest of the country, making it a bird so fair and foul to a mixed group of birders as you’ll ever see. Aspect one is feeding when humans are not around.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2022

A small group of Turquoise Tanagers fed on fruiting cecropia, albeit briefly. A member of the “trilling” (and thrilling) subspecies group of the Long-billed Gnatwren is present throughout Trinidad, and is yet another headache-inducing species. Even human-discarded foodstuff has been utilized by these resourceful birds!

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JANUARY 27, 2013

Fortunately for attendees, there are around 60 family groups of the charismatic and affable birds scattered throughout the Brevard County area, and many of the field trips at the festival run across them at various times. But honestly, part of that is a peanuts.

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