Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

Many of these changes (loss of legs, different type of locomotion, highly modified skull, loss of eyelids, ambush predator hunting strategy) have caused snakes to appear less "anthropomorphic" than lizards or turtles for example. Imagine, for a second, that Chris Coffee owned tortoises instead of snakes.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 12, 2006

It keeps its readers abreast of goings-on in the animal kingdom. Here is a story about the plight of the turtle. The New York Times does one thing well.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 27, 2009

Here is a post from Ethics Soup.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2007

But not long ago on a lonely road in northern Connecticut, I stopped to administer similar compassion, only to be stoutly rebuffed by a vicious snapping turtle that refused to be helped. I have done that, and afterward felt at least virtuous if not godlike. Robert Longley Salisbury, Conn.,

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 11, 2008

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people.

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