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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Art, Birds, Culture, Wildlife on 05 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Birds or Plane?

Birds or Plane?
Birds or Plane? I love seeing depictions of animals in art and pop culture. I think bringing wildlife and pets into our life, even if it is just in photographs or pictures, helps us remember that we're not automatons who always require a connection to Twitter and XBox Live and the Internet to survive...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Birds, Culture, Music, Pets, Science & Tech, Videos, Wildlife on 05 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

Head-banging parrot proves birds can dance

Head-banging parrot proves birds can dance
photo credit: aussiegall A head-banging parrot who became a YouTube sensation has demonstrated that an ability to appreciate music and keep a rhythm is not unique to humans, scientists say. Snowball the cockatoo, who appears to bop his head, tap his claws and squawk enthusiastically to the Back Street...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals, Birds, Conservation, Endangered Species, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 19th, 2009 | No Comments

California brown pelican may be removed from state endangered species list

California brown pelican may be removed from state endangered species list
The California Fish and Game commission has voted unanimously to remove the California brown pelican from the state endangered species list. This is the first time the commission has voted to delist an endangered species due to recovery. "Every Californian should be proud of this landmark decision,"...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Conservation, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 02 9th, 2009 | No Comments

New Bird Species: New Species Of Babbler Discovered In China

A new species of babbler has been described from Guangxi province in south-west China close to the border with Vietnam. Named Nonggang Babbler Stachyris nonggangensis, after the reserve at which it was discovered, this new species is closely related to Sooty Babbler S. herberti but is larger and has...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Cats, Dogs, Mammals, Pets, Photography, Science & Tech on 01 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Pet Pampering Gone Wild

This assortment of photos, presented by Newsweek, shows some of the coolest, most superfluous, and in some cases, cruelest (like the piano that "plays" live cats by thwacking them with spikes to make them meow) accessories for pets.  My favorite is the pet-stalker-friendly Cat Cam, pictured above....
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Franklin mayor says hundreds of birds found dead killed by gov’t poisoning

Neighbors on streets in the Griggstown section were left Sunday shoveling up hundreds of dead birds that had apparently been killed a few days earlier in an attempt by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reduce their numbers. "It's horrible," said Colette Kiveris, who said she and her husband Sunday...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Conservation, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Birds, Humans Increasingly on Collision Course

The number of collisions between birds and aircraft has rapidly increased over the last two decades, despite better technology to combat them. The US Airways plane that improbably wound up floating in the Hudson River has drawn attention to bird strikes, but a U.S. Department of Agriculture and Federal...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Science & Tech, Wildlife on 01 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Why The Swamp Sparrow Is Hitting The High Notes

Today's lesson: Never underestimate the power and resolve of a swamp sparrow. Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the University of Miami...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Animals & Law, Birds, Conservation, Zoos on 01 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Huge animal audit gets under way

Around the UK zoo keepers are steeling themselves for a mammoth task. During the next few weeks they will carry out the painstaking job of counting each and every animal that lives in their collection - from gorilla to gecko, frog to flamingo, shark to spider. British and Irish Association of Zoos and...
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Posted by kittymowmow in Birds, Culture, Pets, Sport on 01 10th, 2009 | No Comments

St. Louis Cardinals manager La Russa is a passionate animal advocate

Image via Wikipedia Inside Tony La Russa's northern California home there are more dogs and cats than positions on the baseball field. In a recent interview, the St. Louis Cardinals manager counted a dozen -- half of them permanent residents and the other half benefiting from loving foster care...
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