Archive for February, 2010
Tree-dwelling mammals climb to the heights of longevity
Submitted by Animal Science Blog
The squirrels littering your lawn with acorns as they bound overhead will live to plague your yard longer than the ones that aerate it with their burrows, as per a University of Illinois study.
Researchers know from prior studies that flying birds and bats live longer than earthbound animals of the same [...]
On Animal Abuse Registries and Anthropolatry
Submitted by Animal Person
This morning I posted “On California’s Animal Abuse Registry Proposal” over at Animal Rights & AntiOppression and welcome any discussion about it. I should be able to watch the press conference about the bill this afternoon if a conference call doesn’t take too long, and I’ll update if there’s anything new and [...]
Goat and Sheep: Play Fighting, Interesting Behavior
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
If you have an interest in inter-species play/fight behavior, then watch this video I took yesterday. Otherwise, it might be rather boring. You have been warned.
Animal Place is home to 11 goats and 8 sheep. The sheep have learned goats are more aggressive than they and many have horns. Every now [...]
On “Knockout Animals”
Submitted by Animal Person
Today’s New York Times gives us Adam Shriver’s Op-Ed “Not Grass-Fed, But at Least Pain-Free,” which presents its dilemma at the end:
If we cannot avoid factory farms altogether, the least we can do is eliminate the unpleasantness of pain in the animals that must live and die on them. It would be [...]
Meet the Potbellied Pigs!
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
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Meet the Animal Place Chickens!
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Sophie Sheep
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Sophie is a 6-yr-old sheep and proud of it. Rescued as a bummer lamb from a farm, along with two other lambkins, Sophie has lived her whole life at the sanctuary. Lucky sheep!
Here are a couple shots of Miss Sophie.
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Meet Some of the Animal Place Crew!
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Photo Art for Animal Place
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Photos of Sanctuary Animals
Every animal at the sanctuary is precious and for visitors, it’s hard not to want to bring them home! Well, now you can! Welcome one of the Animal Place residents into your home with a matted photo. Even if you haven’t visited the sanctuary, welcome a bit of [...]
On Cannibalism
Submitted by Animal Person
When we left off, the New York Times’ Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn’t thrilled about it emotionally. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows. He writes:
There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for [...]
Roger Cohen Realizes Dogs=Pigs, Sort Of
Submitted by Animal Person
“Dog Days in China” is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. But it’s also remarkable in that Roger Cohen, a 50-something man who writes for the New York Times, wonders:
But do pigs have any more or less of a soul than dogs? Are they any more or less sentient? Do they [...]
Miss Sadie
Submitted by Animal Place Sanctuary
Sadie seems to feeling a bit better. Not perfect, but better. Here are some shots from today:
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On Wearable “Roadkill”
Submitted by Animal Person
Angus sent me a link to “Animal Parts: High Style of Just Plain Beastly” wherein Zosia Bielski reports that “hipsters are going whole hog, donning road kill as accessories and cow hooves on their feet.”
Several designers, one of whom is a vegetarian, are using parts of dead animals they found on the [...]
On “Cheating” and Cookbook Authors
Submitted by Animal Person
There was nothing surprising about Oprah’s most recent show about food. It was full of Michael Pollan, Food Inc., the way we treat animals, and the way we turn food into food facsimiles with unusually long shelf lives. Recommendations included: know the people who produced your food, get out of the supermarket [...]
