10,000 Birds
APRIL 16, 2011
A FOLIVORE is an animal that eats leaves. With their high cellulose content and often raised levels of toxins drawn from the ground, mature leaves can be very difficult to digest so a folivore needs specialised equipment and adapted behaviour to be able to live off them.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles. Their fragile homes, meager belongings and scant livestock attested to this, and yet the people seemed content with their lot in life. Mursi woman. A Mursi woman in full regalia.
Animal Ethics
MAY 6, 2009
The Argument from Speciesism If there is some doubt whether the arguments from monkeys and from glass walls should be considered moral arguments, there can be no doubt about the moral import of the argument from speciesism. Moreover, since it is morally wrong to kill and eat human beings, it is morally wrong to kill and eat animals.
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