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Why I'm Not Giving Up On Capitalism

Animal Person

Boone's wife) was largely responsible for Oklahoma State University canceling its planned anthrax experiments on baboons after she threatened to cancel the Pickens' $5 million donation to the university's vet school. Here 's a local news article about the situation.) Thomas Paine's Corner has more on the story here.

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

4 The Love Of Animals

A mobile vet unit was able to tranquilize her, clean her wounds, and extract the spear. She’s reared abandoned baby buffalo, dik-diks, impalas, zebras, warthogs, and black rhinos, among others, but no creature has beguiled her more than elephants. To read the full article please visit the National Geographic website.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

In fact, a recent article in the Economist on Singapore’s rewilding states “The oriental pied hornbill (pictured), with its extraordinary ivory casque, had been locally extinct for a century. One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”.