10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Just for one day, not to be pooped or puked on and to not find rat guts hanging off my clothes,” wrote Susan in Michigan. It’s August, and first on the menu is: Fried Rehabber. Summer is high season.

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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Michigan 255

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 167

Critter News

MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. God created animals for the benefits of human beings. That's why he created rats and monkeys.

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Malaysia Monkeys Animal Rats 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The South Georgia Pipit is near threatened, its nests predated by rats, and is one of the main reasons that the South Georgia Heritage Trust aims to eradicate rats from the whole area. Human habitation and industry had an almost devastating effect on this area.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 210

Critter News

JUNE 5, 2009

Those patterns hint at the ancient origins of human hilarity and suggest that other social species - including apes, dogs and rats - really, truly laugh as well. I personally think that a credible laughter concept can, and already has been, extended to mammalian species as lowly as the rat.".

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Apes Animal Rats Primates 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2018

I have written before of the intersection between the human need for entertainment and the bird need to live bird lives and make more birds: it partakes of both the compelling and the ridiculous at the best of times. And now is the best of times. And to ‘raise awareness’ is such a nebulous thing.

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New York City Pennsylvania Rats New York 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s not always an easy book, at times dense and challenging, it is also fascinating and stimulating, motivating us to look at the totality of a bird’s life and the interconnectedness amongst bird movements, shorelines, landscapes, weather, and us–humans.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2018

Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. Employing long-term biosecurity protocols to prevent the reinvasion of the island by mice and rats. Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago.

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Mice Albatross Honolulu Rats 140

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It’s that time of the year again when the humans start sniffling and sneezing! Not just dogs though, pet birds, ferrets, and even pet rats are all able to catch a cold from a person. Dogs who have colds exhibit similar symptoms to humans; lethargy, sneezing, runny noses, and watery eyes.

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Dogs Ferrets Vet Rats 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 24, 2009

However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. this study was mainly about the effect of high doses of a chemical called phthalates on the number of rats born with undescended testicles, it is premature to report that stress has a part to play in reducing fertility in men.

Mice 100

Mice Experience Experiments Medical Research 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

It is now believed to have been a fairly common resident of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands until the arrival of the first humans when it went the way of most flightless easy to catch island birds immediately after the arrival of man. Guam Rail Gallirallus owstoni.

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Puerto Rico Guam Virgin Islands Feral 244

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Comuzzie, a nationally prominent obesity researcher and geneticist at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, recently induced metabolic syndrome — risk factors associated with the human epidemic of diabetes and heart disease — by making the baboons' high-fat diet tastier and adding a sweet drink flavored with high-fructose corn syrup.

Primates 100

Primates San Antonio Guinea Pigs Biomedical Research 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2018

Even more especially now, when the line between human assisted movement and natural territorial shift is befuddled by climate change and massive ongoing changes in land use, it’s not at all soft-headed to start thinking that there’s more to the story than good vs. evil.

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Species San Francisco Rats Zebras 133

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2014

They cut down the trees the parrots used for nesting and brought black rats, who ate their eggs, and honeybees who swarmed into their nests, and by 1937 there were only about 2,000 Puerto Rican Parrots left. Spanish settlers arrived in 1493 and called the birds Coterras. Other Europeans came. Africans were brought over as slaves.

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Puerto Rico Parrots New York City 2013 247

Critter News

JUNE 4, 2009

The EU's executive Commission last year proposed a range of measures to improve the welfare of the 12 million vertebrate animals used in experiments each year, mostly mice and rats.

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Medical Research Medical Research Apes 100

Animal Person

MAY 23, 2009

If you believe your dog has a right to a life free of torture and slaughter for no reason, then you really ought to think about extending that right to mice, rats, chickens and fish. So there are more vegans and fewer animals used by humans, right? Weighing the Impact At some level, PETA’s tactics have worked.

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Animal Advocacy Animal PETA Advocacy 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

While breast cancer awareness month for people might be over, it’s important to realize that we humans aren’t the only ones affected by the disease. In fact, I experienced it first hand when my pet rat developed breast cancer late in her life. Here are some great facts about breast cancer in dogs and cats.

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Pets Spay Spaying District of Columbia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2016

But before we get to that there was a creature that really wanted a feeder of its own and seemed used to getting fed by humans. Say pigeons and we New Yorkers automatically think of the ragged sky rats that tourists love to feed. And, of course, lots of birds were present in the yard that did not come to the feeders.

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Fox New York New York City Birds 100

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 1, 2009

We send Animal Therapy teams to hospitals, nursing homes, Hospices and even private homes for Animal assisted Therapy (where we have animals go to individuals or groups) or Animal Assisted Activities (Where we have an animal involved with the actual therapy of an individual that is observed and documented by a Health/Human service professional.)

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Hawaii Pets Horses Homelessness 100

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

I advise business people to begin every presentation with a compelling, human-scale story. Stories have been an essential driver of change throughout human history,” states Shane Snow, founder of Contently, in an essay written for HubSpot called “Why Storytelling Will be the Biggest Business Skill of the Next Five Years.”.

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Emotional Rats Morals 2014 90

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

Sixty or so days later, they fledge and, with no guidance from their parents, take off across the Atlantic – the equivalent, Morgan-Greenville says, of a four-month-old human baby “walking out of the house to make its own way in the world.” But human beings are not uniformly evil. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.

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West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2012

I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. Navy wiped out every single rat on Midway Atoll, seabirds flourished afterwards.

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Animal Rights Movement Animal Rights Wildlife Rights 263

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Bats, it seems, are the reservoir of many zoonoses that cause humans, and other creatures, so many issues. Hendra, a nasty Australian virus, spread to humans and horses from fruit bats, as have other diseases elsewhere. At any rate, they don’t seem to mind the virus.

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Pythons Bats Uganda Burundi 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. To quote Wikipedia the effects it has on the body: In humans, the symptoms of poisoning normally appear between 30 minutes and three hours after exposure. There are, however, situations where opposition to conservation efforts make less sense.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2021

I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too. Popular with Black-winged Stilts … … Common Redshanks … … and with Pied Avocets , though their activities look a bit dangerous. In contrast, the Common Terns present look much more elegant.

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Uganda Birds Breeding Rats 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

What right do we have to even exist when our very existence as humanity is what has caused a rate of extinction not seen except during cataclysmic events? Sure, we try not to introduce snakes, rats, cats, goats, pigs, and a host of other creatures to isolated islands. Keep cats outdoors?

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Mauritius Djibouti Guam Goats 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 29, 2015

As I have pointed out before , we owe the much-maligned sky rat a debt of gratitude. Human ingenuity has found a lot of uses for pigeons, though. Like everything else that humans choose to domesticate, though, fancy pigeons sometimes get loose into the environment and then matters take on a less cheerful air.

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Lifestyle Rats Falcons Breeders 160

Critter News

MAY 28, 2009

Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. 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.

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Michael Vick Guinea Pigs Animal Cruelty Animal Abuse 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” Our world has changed, and humans have created that change. Wildlife no longer exists in the same way it did before humans came on the scene. The difference seems obvious.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 190

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. New Zealand is isolated, and has less species for its size than an equivalent area of continent (this is explained by the theory of island biography).

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 185

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2013

The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.

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New York New York City 2013 Collecting 162

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Before you answer, here are some details to inform your decision: The first "knockout animals" were laboratory rats, whose anterior cingulate cortex have been damaged/blocked so that though they might still feel pain, they do not find it unpleasant. In other words, the perception of pain is affected. What about being torn from your family?

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Factory 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s no secret that beer and wine share a common heritage that dates back to the earliest days of human civilization. While the city brewer might contend with urban vermin like rats and pigeons, the country vintner generally enjoys the company of more charismatic wildlife. Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife.

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2014 Milwaukee California Rats 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2023

In the human psyche, owls can be cuddly signs of good luck and benificence (as they are in Japan, and Harry Potter movies) and, at the same time, eerie and unsettling. Either way, they are perhaps more central to our stories and lore than other birds, a familiar example, as Darlington reminds us, being Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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Barn Owls Owls Finland Serbia 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2011

The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback. Both species had undergone massive declines since the arrival of humans and where in a perilous position in the 1970s. It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding.

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Species New Zealand Rats Seychelles 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2015

And over the last few years actual paper books have been making the leap onto devices, and, specifically for this review, tablets and smartphones, in a manner that reminds one of rats on a proverbial sinking ship. How many copies of Sasol does one human need? When I got to South Africa though I was struck with some indecision.

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Africa South Africa Zimbabwe Penguins 190