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Releasing White Doves

10,000 Birds

Animals aren’t metaphors for people or their plans,” says Monte Merrick, a rehabber in California. Kathryn Dudeck is a rehabber outside Atlanta. Ethical businesses post notices on their websites stating that unless the released birds are properly trained and conditioned, they will not survive. Why do this?”. Blow bubbles, people!

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. The Atlanta Zoo in Georgia is borrowing Chengdu’s winning technique to help try and have a baby of its own. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K.,

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

In fact, the Language Research Center at Georgia State University has engaged in continuous social, cognitive and biobehavioral research on primates, including language training and research, since 1981. Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. 10, 2007 Note from KBJ: By what right do we take these animals out of the wild?