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From the Mailbag

Animal Ethics

Hi I have a friend who lives in San Diego, CA who has recently run into some problems with her apartment management. Not only does she have no intention whatsoever of declawing her cats, she wants to stop the management from requiring this of its tenants. My friend is horrified by this. She has written about this on her blog.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Some ornithologists strive for synthesis (see, for example, Gerald Mayr’s 2007 paper Avian higher-level phylogeny: well-supported clades and what we can learn from a phylogenetic analysis of 2954 morphological characters ), and I believe it’s in this approach that the future lies. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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