10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2017
The Baltimore Ravens crushed my beloved New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV (2001) to become football’s finest feathered franchise. Considering how humanity treats birds around the world, this is clearly a case of sports imitating life. Avian-themed teams simply don’t do very well in the big game.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.
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Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 10, 2006
While I do understand the need for companionship, especially in New York, this dog obsession has gone too far. It seems as if we are humanizing dogs in a perverse effort to make us feel more human ourselves. 7, 2006 Loretta O’Driscoll Brooklyn, Dec. Loretta O’Driscoll Brooklyn, Dec.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 12, 2006
Historically, these diseases have been studied only when they affect human populations or domestic animals. Whether it is the Ebola virus in gorillas, the H5N1 avian influenza virus in birds or SARS, we are understanding that the implications of infectious disease for wildlife and humans are becoming one and the same.
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. We see a Puerto Rican Parrot flying over the heads of two humans (the authors, it turns out), their yellow and white shirts shining like beacons in a landscape of forest and olive and emerald greens and cobalt blues. A hawk-avoidance training program is created. The birds thrive.
Animal Person
APRIL 6, 2010
When I started blogging in May of 2006 I was very snarky. Riddle me this: Why would any human animal use as a default position that nonhuman animals do not have personalities as rich, distinct, obnoxious, obsequious and varied as human animals? Why is it surprising that nonhuman animals have personalities when human animals do?
Animal Ethics
JUNE 17, 2011
And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom. Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy [London and New York: Continuum, 2006], 61-3 [italics in original])
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