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Is Dolphin Therapy Cruel to Dolphins?

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ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith. Tags: dolphin.

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The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. The truth is, wintering Baltimore Orioles are unusual, but not unheard of, in the southeast.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Sea World of Florida has directed its staff to replace tank with aquarium , and cage with enclosure " (94). "In Chance is so close! Please consider a gift.

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Kermie

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South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. There is a God, I thought.