PART II of the interview with Marc Bekoff: ‘More compassion for animals feeds into more compassion for people.’
This is the second part of the interview with Marc Bekoff, vegan and professor emeritus Ecology and Evolutionairy Biology from the University of Colorado.
INTERVIEW – PART I:
Most people attribute emotions to their companion animals, but not to chickens, pigs, cows or other non-companion animals. We treat the animals we eat different than our pets. Biologist Dr. Marc Bekoff is hopeful and makes a call for a more compassionate world where people treat one another and animals better.
PART I of the interview with Marc Bekoff: ‘Animals have emotions and morality’
It took some time, but finally it is online: the first part of the interview with Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus Ecology and Evolutionairy Biology from the University of Colorado, and specialized in the social behaviour and emotional lives of animals. As a bonus there is a video, with many thanks to Robin Van Nuffel!
The interview has been published in the science magazine EOS (in Dutch) and can be downloaded here.
The second part of the interview ”More compassion for animals feeds into more compassion for people’ will be published online soon.
Pigeons are intelligent, a kid can see that
© Helga D'Havé. Young pigeons.
Pigeons are not stupid… I knew that since I was a kid. How could they otherwise find their way home to the pigeon house of my uncle after being released in a strange land they had never visited before? The intelligence of pigeons is now scientifically proven.
A short article on this (in Dutch) was published in Eos-magazine 4 (April 2009) and can be downloaded here. The English version follows below: Continue Reading »
Comeback of the barn owl
© Wim Acke
Last June I accompanied a friend (thanks for the pic Wim!) to visit a barn owl nest at the attic of a former pigeon house in a small village in East-Flanders. We counted four barn owl young (and several small pigeons in the lower part of the house). Unfortunately, a few weeks later my friend told me only one small barn owl was left, but there were no remains of the three others, so they clearly hadn’t died there. Possibly the three young owl were stolen for pet-keeping. Unfortunately some selfish people think they need an owl at home. Barn owl populations have been thriving again in Belgium, but this story makes clear that new dangers are present..
The original Dutch version of the article can be read in Eos-magazine no. 9 (Oct. 2009) or downloaded here. The English version follows below:
In the seventies barn owls populations had dropped to their lowest numbers ever in history. At present and as a result of protection measures the barn owl is again an often sighted bird in the agricultural landscape. Continue Reading »
