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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Sarah Palin of Alaska, the scientific literature is very clear that polar bear survival is highly threatened in the wild. But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.)

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