Jennifer McComb
@jen4animals.bsky.social
Living on an island in Paradise. Making a difference for animals, taking time to do something fun every day.
🦀 Crabs feel pain and remember dangerous locations to avoid future harm. They communicate by drumming their claws and form social hierarchies. Yet humans boil them alive and dismember them while conscious. Some crabs can live 100 or more years, but humans kill them as juveniles. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦀 Crabs feel pain and remember dangerous locations to avoid future harm. They communicate by drumming their claws and form social hierarchies. Yet humans boil them alive and dismember them while conscious. Some crabs can live 100 or more years, but humans kill them as juveniles. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐝 Honey bees perform waggle dances to communicate flower locations and make collective decisions through "voting." Commercial beekeepers clip queens' wings, replace their honey with sugar water, and kill entire hives deemed unprofitable. Bees make honey for themselves, not us. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐝 Honey bees perform waggle dances to communicate flower locations and make collective decisions through "voting." Commercial beekeepers clip queens' wings, replace their honey with sugar water, and kill entire hives deemed unprofitable. Bees make honey for themselves, not us. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐭 Chinchillas are highly social, intelligent rodents who take dust baths and communicate through vocalizations. On fur farms, they're confined to tiny cages and killed by neck-breaking or electrocution. It takes 150+ chinchillas to make one coat. Choose faux fur. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐭 Chinchillas are highly social, intelligent rodents who take dust baths and communicate through vocalizations. On fur farms, they're confined to tiny cages and killed by neck-breaking or electrocution. It takes 150+ chinchillas to make one coat. Choose faux fur. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐐 Goats are curious, playful animals who form strong social bonds and can learn their names. In dairy operations, their kids are taken away so humans can steal their milk. Male kids are often killed immediately as "waste products." Choose plant-based cheese alternatives. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐐 Goats are curious, playful animals who form strong social bonds and can learn their names. In dairy operations, their kids are taken away so humans can steal their milk. Male kids are often killed immediately as "waste products." Choose plant-based cheese alternatives. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐟 Trout have excellent memories and can remember feeding locations for months. They feel pain and stress when hooked or confined. In fish farms, humans pack them in disease-ridden tanks and kill them by suffocation or blunt force trauma. Their intelligence deserves rivers. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐟 Trout have excellent memories and can remember feeding locations for months. They feel pain and stress when hooked or confined. In fish farms, humans pack them in disease-ridden tanks and kill them by suffocation or blunt force trauma. Their intelligence deserves rivers. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦐 Shrimp have complex nervous systems and display pain responses when injured. They can live up to six years but most are killed as juveniles. Shrimp farming destroys coastal ecosystems, while trawling kills billions of other sea creatures as bycatch. Leave them in the ocean. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦐 Shrimp have complex nervous systems and display pain responses when injured. They can live up to six years but most are killed as juveniles. Shrimp farming destroys coastal ecosystems, while trawling kills billions of other sea creatures as bycatch. Leave them in the ocean. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦊 Foxes are playful, intelligent animals who form monogamous pairs and are devoted parents. On fur farms, they're confined to tiny cages and killed by electrocution or gassing. Their winter coats are stolen for fashion: 80 million animals killed yearly for fur. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦊 Foxes are playful, intelligent animals who form monogamous pairs and are devoted parents. On fur farms, they're confined to tiny cages and killed by electrocution or gassing. Their winter coats are stolen for fashion: 80 million animals killed yearly for fur. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦢 Geese mate for life and mourn deceased partners for years. They're highly intelligent with excellent memories. Humans force feed them for foie gras and violently pluck their feathers for down while they're alive. Their loyalty and intelligence deserve better than this torture. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦢 Geese mate for life and mourn deceased partners for years. They're highly intelligent with excellent memories. Humans force feed them for foie gras and violently pluck their feathers for down while they're alive. Their loyalty and intelligence deserve better than this torture. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐰 Rabbits are intelligent, social animals who binky (jump for joy) when happy and form strong pair bonds. Yet they're used in cruel cosmetics tests: chemicals dripped in their eyes and toxic substances force-fed, causing significant pain and distress. Choose cruelty-free. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐰 Rabbits are intelligent, social animals who binky (jump for joy) when happy and form strong pair bonds. Yet they're used in cruel cosmetics tests: chemicals dripped in their eyes and toxic substances force-fed, causing significant pain and distress. Choose cruelty-free. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦞 Like humans, lobsters can recognize other individual lobsters, carry their babies for about nine months, and can live over 100 years. They have complex nervous systems and feel intense pain when dismembered, boiled, or steamed alive. Boiling them causes three minutes of agony. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦞 Like humans, lobsters can recognize other individual lobsters, carry their babies for about nine months, and can live over 100 years. They have complex nervous systems and feel intense pain when dismembered, boiled, or steamed alive. Boiling them causes three minutes of agony. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐄 In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly impregnated and their calves torn away within hours of birth. Mothers cry for days. These intelligent, emotional beings deserve to nurse their babies, not have their milk stolen. Dairy is cruelty. Choose plant milk. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐄 In the dairy industry, cows are repeatedly impregnated and their calves torn away within hours of birth. Mothers cry for days. These intelligent, emotional beings deserve to nurse their babies, not have their milk stolen. Dairy is cruelty. Choose plant milk. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐟 Sturgeons can live 100+ years but are killed or cut open alive for caviar. Humans steal their eggs before they can reproduce. These ancient fish have survived since dinosaur times, yet caviar demand has pushed many species to near extinction. Their roe isn't worth their lives. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐟 Sturgeons can live 100+ years but are killed or cut open alive for caviar. Humans steal their eggs before they can reproduce. These ancient fish have survived since dinosaur times, yet caviar demand has pushed many species to near extinction. Their roe isn't worth their lives. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🐑 Sheep recognize individual faces and remember them for years. They form friendships and feel fear and pain. Yet they're killed at 6-8 months for meat or subjected to painful shearing for wool. Choose vegan options like PlantWool instead: www.peta.org/news/plant-woo... #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🐑 Sheep recognize individual faces and remember them for years. They form friendships and feel fear and pain. Yet they're killed at 6-8 months for meat or subjected to painful shearing for wool. Choose vegan options like PlantWool instead: www.peta.org/news/plant-woo... #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦆 Ducks are playful, affectionate animals who mate for life and mourn lost partners. In foie gras production, they're force-fed through tubes until their livers swell to 10x normal size, causing immense suffering. Their intelligence deserves better than torture. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🦆 Ducks are playful, affectionate animals who mate for life and mourn lost partners. In foie gras production, they're force-fed through tubes until their livers swell to 10x normal size, causing immense suffering. Their intelligence deserves better than torture. #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
Guinea Pigs are highly social animals who purr when happy and communicate through 11+ distinct vocalizations. Yet millions suffer in laboratories: tested with toxins, subjected to surgeries, and killed. Their gentle, social nature deserves protection, not pain. #EndAnimalTesting #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Guinea Pigs are highly social animals who purr when happy and communicate through 11+ distinct vocalizations. Yet millions suffer in laboratories: tested with toxins, subjected to surgeries, and killed. Their gentle, social nature deserves protection, not pain. #EndAnimalTesting #WorldVeganMonth 🌱
🦬 Bison are ecosystem engineers with remarkable spatial memory; they remember migration routes across vast prairies. Once 60 million strong, they were hunted to fewer than 1,000. Today only 20,000 wild bison remain, making them functionally extinct from most of their range. #WorldBisonDay
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🦬 Bison are ecosystem engineers with remarkable spatial memory; they remember migration routes across vast prairies. Once 60 million strong, they were hunted to fewer than 1,000. Today only 20,000 wild bison remain, making them functionally extinct from most of their range. #WorldBisonDay
🐒 Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, which is home to over 100 species, with 94% threatened with extinction. These intelligent primates use scent marking and vocalizations for complex communication. Deforestation threatens their survival. Support Madagascar conservation! #WorldLemurDay
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🐒 Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, which is home to over 100 species, with 94% threatened with extinction. These intelligent primates use scent marking and vocalizations for complex communication. Deforestation threatens their survival. Support Madagascar conservation! #WorldLemurDay
🦀 Christmas Island Red Crabs undertake one of nature's most spectacular migrations. 50 million crabs march from the forest to the ocean in synchronized waves to spawn. They navigate using the sun and can detect the full moon, timing their arrival perfectly with lunar tides. #MigrationMasters
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🦀 Christmas Island Red Crabs undertake one of nature's most spectacular migrations. 50 million crabs march from the forest to the ocean in synchronized waves to spawn. They navigate using the sun and can detect the full moon, timing their arrival perfectly with lunar tides. #MigrationMasters
Common Nighthawks migrate 6,000+ miles from Canada to South America, flying at dusk and dawn while catching insects mid-flight. Their erratic, batlike flight helps them navigate urban areas, and they can lower their body temperature at night to conserve energy during long journeys. #MigrationMasters
October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Common Nighthawks migrate 6,000+ miles from Canada to South America, flying at dusk and dawn while catching insects mid-flight. Their erratic, batlike flight helps them navigate urban areas, and they can lower their body temperature at night to conserve energy during long journeys. #MigrationMasters
🐟 Swordfish migrate vertically every day, diving 2,000+ feet during daylight and rising to surface waters at night to hunt. They can heat their brains and eyes to maintain vision in cold deep waters, making them one of the fastest and most efficient oceanic predators. #MigrationMasters
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🐟 Swordfish migrate vertically every day, diving 2,000+ feet during daylight and rising to surface waters at night to hunt. They can heat their brains and eyes to maintain vision in cold deep waters, making them one of the fastest and most efficient oceanic predators. #MigrationMasters
🦅 Swainson's Hawks migrate 14,000 miles annually from North America to Argentina: one of the longest raptor migrations. They travel in flocks called "kettles" numbering in the thousands, using thermal updrafts to soar for hours without flapping their wings. #MigrationMasters
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🦅 Swainson's Hawks migrate 14,000 miles annually from North America to Argentina: one of the longest raptor migrations. They travel in flocks called "kettles" numbering in the thousands, using thermal updrafts to soar for hours without flapping their wings. #MigrationMasters
🐢 Leatherback Sea Turtles dive deeper than any other sea turtle: 4,000+ feet during 10,000-mile migrations. They regulate body temperature in freezing waters and navigate using magnetic maps imprinted at birth, returning to the exact nesting beaches decades later. #MigrationMasters
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🐢 Leatherback Sea Turtles dive deeper than any other sea turtle: 4,000+ feet during 10,000-mile migrations. They regulate body temperature in freezing waters and navigate using magnetic maps imprinted at birth, returning to the exact nesting beaches decades later. #MigrationMasters
Indigo Buntings navigate using star patterns learned as nestlings. These brilliant blue birds can recalibrate their internal compass if transported to unfamiliar locations, proving they understand celestial rotation and can learn new migration routes throughout their lives. #MigrationMasters
October 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Indigo Buntings navigate using star patterns learned as nestlings. These brilliant blue birds can recalibrate their internal compass if transported to unfamiliar locations, proving they understand celestial rotation and can learn new migration routes throughout their lives. #MigrationMasters
Bluefin Tuna cross entire oceans at speeds up to 45 mph, navigating by detecting temperature changes of 0.05°F. They can maintain body temperatures 20°F warmer than surrounding water, giving them energy for 6,000+ mile migrations between feeding and spawning grounds. #WorldFishMigrationDay
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bluefin Tuna cross entire oceans at speeds up to 45 mph, navigating by detecting temperature changes of 0.05°F. They can maintain body temperatures 20°F warmer than surrounding water, giving them energy for 6,000+ mile migrations between feeding and spawning grounds. #WorldFishMigrationDay
Snow Leopards survive in extreme mountain habitats up to 18,000 feet, using their three-foot tails for balance and warmth. Fewer than 6,500 remain due to poaching and climate change shrinking their habitat. These "ghost cats" need our protection. #SnowLeopardDay
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Snow Leopards survive in extreme mountain habitats up to 18,000 feet, using their three-foot tails for balance and warmth. Fewer than 6,500 remain due to poaching and climate change shrinking their habitat. These "ghost cats" need our protection. #SnowLeopardDay