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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. We immediately get a sense of the pigeons’ abundance, beauty, and danger to human activity. ” (I love that term, and may adopt it for future use.) We have a lot of source material. It’s an effective introduction.

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Lessons Learned, The Finale

Animal Person

Also, four years ago you couldn't put a Google search button on your blog to search only the contents of your blog. I understand the impulse to do " something " that alters the number of animals created to be used and killed and the suffering of the ones created. And I still wrestle with opportunities to decrease suffering.

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