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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

Another puzzling thing to me, as for me, the ideal number of people to live with would be somewhere between zero and one but definitely not above 1. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. End of side note.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

Stephanie's post about " The Compassionate Hypocrite " on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other " compassionate carnivores " are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. It's cruel. No argument here.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. By definition, it’s a feeling that one tries to hide. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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