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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

Critter News

I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing.

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

10,000 Birds

Instead, the film focuses on the importance of the Rio Grande delta as a migratory corridor and the different ways in which ornithologists, biologists, bird surveyors, banders, sanctuary guides, hawk counters, and birders contribute to creating safe places for migrating and residential birds (and also insects, reptiles, and mammals).

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

The advocacy component of old speciesism isn't the campaign to end that exploitation, however. intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). Instead, it is the campaign to modify it.

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants.