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Wild Animal Ethics Question/Inquiry

Reddit Animals

Hi, ive been thinking recently about how it may be wrong to save animals who are dying in the wild. Is it ethical to save a wild animal? Because if you save a animal that has become injured naturally you'd be getting rid of the circle of life and putting other animals without a meal.

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A Question for Animal Ethics Readers

Animal Ethics

I'd love to know whether philosophical reflection and argumentation has had an impact on your moral attitudes toward animals or on the moral attitudes towards animals of someone you know. Please read the post by Megan McArdle that Keith linked to in his post from yesterday.

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Orcas Have Some Pretty Big Brains

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Tags: captivity animal ethics marine animals Orcas.

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Critter News Content to be Featured on AnimalRightsZone.com

Critter News

Joining us will be Animal Person , Creature Talk , and Animal Ethics. Starting tomorrow, Critter News content will be featured on AnimalRightsZone.com. Note - we'll still be here. But, some of our posts will show up on the new site as well. So, I hope you'll time to check out the site and check out some of the other bloggers.

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J. J. C. Smart on Ethical Progress

Animal Ethics

If there has been progress in ethics recently it has been through the realization of some ethicists that animal happiness and suffering has to be considered equally with that of human beings. I should draw attention here to the remarkable book Animal Liberation by Professor Peter Singer of Monash University.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

Reddit Animals

Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets. And their behavior is completely consistent with what we would understand as "animal sentience. You can dislike something and still recognize the ethical significance of that animal. Their behavior is very, very dependent upon how they are treated.

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Ghoulish Primate Experiment in South Africa

Critter News

Jordaan allegedly submitted a research application to the University of the Free State, but its animal ethics committee rejected it. Kotze said Jordaan had apparently doing "stem cell research" to help people walk again after a friend of his had been paralysed in an accident. He was told to rewrite and resubmit it.