Filed under: Daily life in the Wild West | Tags: baby turkey, blowing, cat, critter, neck, rumbling, tree, Wild Turkey, wind, windows, wings
We’ve had a family of wild turkeys around the house, for a month or so. The mom and 4 turkettes took up residence and sleep high in one of our trees. The babies follow their mom up the tree and onto a top branch. Then mom gathers the four turkettes under her wings, and they sleep there all night. We’ve watched the turkettes grow from little babies, and we were sad to wake up this morning and find one of the babies had died during the night.
The winds were blowing so hard last night that our windows and were rumbling. I’m guessing that one of the babies was blown out of the tree. The thing is, his neck had been chewed on…I wonder if our cat just couldn’t resist? Or was it some other critter who got hold of him?
So it’s a sad day here at our house. May the little guy rest in peace..
Filed under: Daily life in the Wild West
The Tar Sands Blow
“The Canadian Tar Sands is the world’s largest, and dirtiest, energy project. Dirty oil sands crude generates as much as five times greenhouse gas as conventional oil. Yet, unless steps are taken by the U.S. and Canada, both countries will become irrevocably addicted to the dirtiest oil on earth. Totally lame. “
Filed under: What the heck is going on? | Tags: Chimpanzee, Congress, Experiments, Grace Slick, Great Ape Protection Act, Invasive procedures, Legislation, Military, PCRM
More than 1,000 chimpanzees still live in research and testing laboratories in the United States. These laboratories are permitted to keep chimpanzees in metal cages about the size of a kitchen table, deprive them of normal social interaction, and repeatedly subject them to invasive procedures.
The United States is the only nation that still makes large-scale use of chimpanzees in invasive research. But legislation recently introduced in Congress could help chimpanzees held in U.S. laboratories. The Great Ape Protection Act (GAPA) would phase out all invasive research on chimpanzees and release federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuaries.
Many other countries have already banned or severely restricted experiments on chimpanzees and other great apes because of a growing awareness of the serious scientific problems with these experiments. But the movement to end chimpanzee experiments is also based on our expanding knowledge of their rich social and emotional lives—and the suffering caused by life in a laboratory. READ MORE…
PCRM Good Medicine Magazine Ready for Retirement: Will Congress Release Chimpanzees Used in Experiments? Summer 2009.
