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Vulture vs. Bunny

10,000 Birds

Two years ago I finally caved and told my daughter she could have a rabbit. But Skye wore me down, and in her junior year of high school we went to the local Rabbit Rescue. How long do rabbits live?” Then give us a six-year-old rabbit,” I said, knowing Skye would be heading for college in two years.

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T&S Rabbits meat/fur farm closure to see about 250 rabbits given to activists

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

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Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." Protein is not dependent on meat at all. I've seen two chefs wear stupid meat-inspired shirts. The main challenge involves frog legs, rabbits, live lobsters (still moving) and other animals. That's not true. What the eff?

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. In a perfect world, people would know better.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I “Poor thing was hyperglycemic.”. How many hawks have we taken in who have been fed bacon?”

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

10,000 Birds

In the Far East they keep birds of prey which they use to capture other animals such as foxes and rabbits. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat. Many birds around the world in the Robin family ( Turdidae ) are favorites due to their musical songs.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds. Let’s talk about taste.

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