Animals & the Law
Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic
What are fish?
This species of bird is described by the shape of its bill, which is a word for something in your silverware drawer
What is a spoonbill?
1979 advocacy organization with a mission to protect the lives and advance the interests of animals through the legal system:
ALDF
What is the Animal Legal Defense Fund?
These bats feed only on blood
What are vampire bats?
This is a brass instrument that has historically been used as a signaling device in battle or hunting
What is a trumpet?
Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one
What is a pig?
In a 1995 episode of this "Science Guy's" TV show, he gave a zoological lecture on mammals
Who is Bill Nye?
1973 pro-animal legislation, protecting, among others, the Florida panther and the gopher tortoise:
ESA
What is the Endangered Species Act?
This is a small griddle bread, originating from the United Kingdom that is similar to an English muffin
What is a crumpet?
You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it
What is a frog?
1966 federal law regulating the humane care, handling, treatment, and transport of warm-blooded creatures:
AWA
What is the Animal Welfare Act?
This request to do something is most commonly addressed to a government official, but at Barry, you can have one of these "for variance"
What is a petition?
New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year
What is draw a buggy?
1970 procedural statute requiring a major federal action that significantly affects the quality of the environment:
NEPA
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
This British breed of sighthound sounds like a song by the group Devo and can be a pet itself
What is a Whippet?
This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon
What is Tennessee?
1866 non-profit that used the song "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan to elicit sympathy for its cause:
ASPCA
What is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?
This is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at the edge of a roof, terrace, balcony, walkway or other structure
What is a parapet?