Animal Ethics
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
They are dismissed by some as a "Eurocentric illusion," and praised by others as the answer to the problem of humanity's survival. Our duties to them, he argued, are actually duties to particular human beings. Kant's dog, in other words, counts for nothing, while some Chinese peasant counts for as much as Kant himself.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The domestic dog was once and still often is Canis familiaris as opposed to the wolf, Canis lupus , but the former which is really a subspecies of the latter is now Canis lupus familiaris. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. et al 2001. Of Plymouth Plantation. Crawford, R.D. 41 (extra) 307–314. 11(4):643–57.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.
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