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

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This makes it much harder for people to have empathy for snakes, even though snakes have retained all the biological features that are important to consider for animal ethics (just like turtles and lizards). Imagine, for a second, that Chris Coffee owned tortoises instead of snakes. How would people react?

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To the Editor: It’s good to know that Verlyn Klinkenborg is among those of us who stop to help tortoises on their way on a busy road (“ Edges and Order ,” The Rural Life, Jan. I have done that, and afterward felt at least virtuous if not godlike.

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

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