Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

The Animal Defence League of Canada got Walmart to pull slippers containing real rabbit fur off its shelves. Walmart (of all places) has a no-fur policy. The slippers are called Tender Tootsies. DON'T BUY THEM!

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Rabbits Fur Canada Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2011

Naturalists examining old nests have identified raccoon, opossum, dog, fox squirrel, red squirrel, rabbit, horse, cow, cat, mouse, woodchuck, and even human hair in titmouse nests.

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Raccoons Woodchucks Opossums Squirrels 260

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

Mammals Kazakhstan rabbits' Wait, what was that trick she told me? Ah, yes, I remember… “Hey! There’s a WARBLER in the bush behind you!” ” Works all the time!

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Humane Kazakhstan Camels Rabbits 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2021

Pantless Thunder Goose is brewed in the hazy New England IPA style and hopped with El Dorado, Topaz, and Mosaic hops, three varieties known for their pungent and fruity aromas.

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India Ostriches Porcupines Rabbits 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Previously, scientists had pegged the maximum range of a swimming stoat at 1.5 kilometers.

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New Zealand Rabbits Sanctuary Wildlife 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2013

In New York and Chicago, they’ve been pretty mundane—a White-tailed Deer here, an Eastern Cottontail rabbit there. Much like Carrie’s recent experiences being hoodwinked by non-bird sources of birdy-sounding calls , I’ve had my share of animal encounters out in the field.

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Coyotes Nevada Rattlesnake Mules 235

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The collapse of the UK rabbit population during the myxomatosis outbreak in the 1950’s allowed the previously well-cropped vetches to grow long and lush, lowering the ground temperature and the butterflies were wiped out from much of southern England within two years.

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Rabbits Ireland Sheep 2002 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2024

Red-backed Shrike Eurasian Blackcap A massive European Hare was cute to watch as well, a nice change from the European Rabbits that are very common in our local park. It initially ran off, but then adopted a different strategy by crouching on the ground and relying on its camouflage, its big eyes looking up at me.

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New Zealand Rabbits Adoptable Family 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

This Large-billed Crow seems to be chewing on some “unknown mystery bone” (The Burning Hell, “Amateur Rappers” ) – maybe a rabbit? The Amur Paradise Flycatcher is another species breeding in Shanghai. A Chinese Pond Heron … … and the same species pretending to be a giraffe.

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Giraffes Rabbits Birds Breeding 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2013

He then ate a screech owl, a robin, two squirrels, a mourning dove, three chipmunks, and a rabbit. He ate through my remaining supply of rats and mice, as well as all my pinkies (hairless, day-old rodents, easily digestible and good for starvation cases). He ate my last quail.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Rodents Mice Chipmunks 239

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 25, 2013

Rabbits scamper into the underbrush, only to encounter a coyote nobody saw standing there. As a wildlife rehabilitator I’ve always wanted to believe that if I put enough time, energy, and devotion into healing a wounded creature, our combined karmic payback will insure that it will live out its life well-fed and trouble-free.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Coyotes Wounded Rabbits 223

10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2015

Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this. He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park.

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Owls Wounded Colorado Rabbits 235

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2012

Arctic Hare also were largely ignored by predators and bred, well, like rabbits. Ground nesting birds (and up here they are all ground nesting birds, well except the ones on cliffs, which are still technically… oh you get the point) enjoyed good breeding success. Hares take advantage of the warming sun to forage on hill sides.

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Rabbits Breeding Litter Raised 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2022

In Shanghai, such fake brands more or less vanished more than 10 years ago, but it seems that on Hainan, there still is a space for them. Playboy is a brand of unexciting clothes – not sure whether there is any connection to Hefner’s empire or whether this brand even exists in the western world.

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Micronesia Branding Buffalo Rabbits 257

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet.

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Parrots Falcons Indonesia Rodents 249

Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

In Sweden, the way they deal with rabbit problems is to shoot them and burn them for fuel. The targeted rabbits are the unwanted inhabitants of capital Stockholm's parks, which are culled to protect the shrubs and trees which they gorge on. Tags: Sweden rabbits.

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Sweden Rabbits Unwanted Culling 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

They are often seen on the ground since their prey consists mainly of rabbit, prairie dog and, you guessed it, ground squirrel. I took a ride up to the Fall River Valley back in October and spotted both morphs in the large grasslands where we also usually see Rough-legged Hawks and Prairie Falcons. This is the light morph.

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Squirrels Prairie Dogs North America Rabbits 194

4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 8, 2011

The RSPCA is trying to dispel the common misconception that rabbits are easy to look after. They actually have complex welfare needs which need to be met so pet rabbits live happy and healthy lives. Thousands of rabbits come into RSPCA care every year.

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RSPCA Rabbits Welfare Pets 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Rabbits were introduced to the island by guano miners, which turned the previously verdant island into a giant sand dune; almost all vegetation was wiped out. They were secure in their isolated home here until humanity came to Laysan in the 1890s. Three other endemic bird species promptly went extinct, and by 1911 as few as 11 ducks remained.

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Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Alaska 253

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. Robert Brault.

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Rabbits Tagged Animal 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In another of these strenuous links to something rather irrelevant that this blog hopefully is not famous for yet, there is a great song by Frank Turner, “A wave across a bay” About Scott Hutchison, singer of the band Frightened Rabbit who committed suicide at a bay in Scotland.

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China Pythons Birds Rabbits 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2019

They seem to exist only to send you down a rabbit hole of eye ring shape and primary projection. Harder to tell from the migratories. White-throated Flycatcher : I have to go with context here; this bird loves marshes. Ah, but those migratory species! Dusky Flycatcher: indistinct eye ring, light lores, relatively short primaries.

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West Virginia Mexico Illinois Rabbits 198

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 19, 2018

10 reasons why guinea pigs make great pets – by James Alston writing for ExoticDirect ExoticDirect offer pet insurance for guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets, hamsters, mice and other small pets. They also insure parrots, reptiles, tortoise and even pygmy hedgehogs!

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Guinea Pigs Guinea Pigs Pets 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Let’s talk about taste.

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Mammals Mozambique Birds Colombia 261

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Like most buteos, the Swainson’s Hawk feeds its young rodents, rabbits and reptiles but not so during non-breeding season. This video of a kettle of Swainson’s Hawks will give you some idea of this phenomenon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tVjohOIdI. v=Q7tVjohOIdI.

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Nevada Utah North America Oregon 160

Animal Person

APRIL 11, 2009

It wouldn’t matter if it was a puppy, a fox cub, a rabbit or, any other lost or hurting Animal, Jasmine would peer into the box or cage and, where possible, deliver a welcoming lick. But she is like that with all of our animals, even the rabbits. But Jasmine had other ideas. Geoff relates one of the early incidents. “We Link: [link].

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Greyhounds Guinea Pigs Stray Puppy Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2012

Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands. The other obvious solution was to make more predator-free islands. But while obvious this was also a much harder proposition.

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New Zealand Rats Mammals Possums 210

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 5, 2014

Another thing we love about Etched In My Heart is that they donate part of their proceeds to The PetSave Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Bona Tucker in June 2000 as a rescue, rehabilitation, and adoption resource for domestic rabbits, cats and dogs. We loved that they included animals beyond just dogs and cats.

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Rabbits Horses Cats 2000 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This is a bit of a rabbit hole, however, and you may find yourself, as I did, spending the day watching videos of Superb Lyrebirds singing and Kea Parrots making snowballs. If you want more of a visual counterpart, you can read The Bird Way next to your computer or with smartphone in hand.

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Science Birds Costa Rica Research 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades.

Alligators 176

Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 176

Critter News

AUGUST 2, 2010

In four years it experimented on 157,839 mice, 17,324 rats, 11,096 fish, 1,941 birds, 1,253 guinea pigs, 933 pigeons, 884 frogs, 207 cats, 54 rabbits and 18 tree shrews from the tropics of south-east Asia. According to a Wales on Sunday investigation, the number of animals used at Cardiff has risen by 13 percent since 2006.

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Animal Research Guinea Pigs Mice Research 100

Critter News

JUNE 24, 2010

The lab, which is run by the Britain-based Alpha Biologics, uses monkeys, dogs, rodents and rabbits for toxicology testing. The veterinary services department launched a probe this month after animal rights campaigners accused the Progenix Research lab based in the northern state of Penang of cruelty to animals.

Malaysia 100

Malaysia Research Rodents Rabbits 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I “A woman brought me a young cottontail years ago,” wrote Tissi Smith. “I I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” He found her on the roadside, and on the way to me he stopped at Shop Rite to get her some food.

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Hamburgers Squirrels Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

In a nationwide survey in 2005, the Australian public rated the common myna as the most significant pest, beating contenders such as the cane toad, the European rabbit, and feral cat ( source ). In Australia, common mynas are considered to threaten native biodiversity due to their territorial behaviors and nest cavity competition ( source ).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Once you start down such a rabbit-hole it is difficult to stop the plunge into full on data-nerd mode. Who has seen the most Green Herons at one time? Painted Buntings ? Gyrfalcons ? What is the most of any one species that has ever been reported at one time? And how reliable is this data?

Louisiana 189

Louisiana Birds Nicaragua Iowa 189

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The complaint also alleges violations of the federal Fur Products Labeling Act and Federal Trade Commission Act, which also prohibit the false advertising and mislabeling of any fur product.

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HSUS Fur Raccoons Rabbits 100