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Has anyone ever wondered why are humans so grossed out with the placenta?

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Most animals in the animal kingdom don't mind the placenta. So why are humans so grossed out by it? I saw a video about a couple cooking their placenta to see how it tastes, and everyone on the comments was saying how horrible and disgusting that is.

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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields

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Also, consider the possibility that modern birds descended from an animal that migrated by foot, or a form that flew only a little now and then but was mostly terrestrial/arboreal and not aerial. There is a lot of electromagnetic noise created by humans, and there has been concern that this energy is harmful.

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International birding tourism after the Covid-19 – what will change?

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I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. You know how Thomas Cook has founded the first tour agency in the early 1800s?

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On "The Road" and Humanity

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When the landscape is barren and there are few living creatures of any kind, people begin to lose their humanity. And that's when they start to do the unthinkable: eat other humans. Bad guys treat humans the way they'd treat animals. They corral them, lock them up, and take them out to kill, cook and eat them as needed.

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The Top 5 Avian Ambassadors of Costa Rica

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Would Barred Owls chuckle and admit that, for the record, “No, we really aren’t saying ‘Who cooks for you’?” Even if the birds could speak like humans, their instincts would still come into constant play. The Rufous-naped Wren is a very animated, common species in Costa Rica.

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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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Most of the usual birds seem present, a frog or two call from a small wetland, and a few other expected animals are there too. During our time travels, we would note vast changes in many other birds and animals. Part of that recognition is assessing which types of plants and animals are more threatened than others.

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Animals as Raw Material

Critter News

I came across this article in USA Today entitled "Waste not, want not: Companies find uses for leftover animal parts." For years, those parts have ended up in cosmetics, soap, pet food and animal feed. What about all the dead humans taking up space in cemeteries? And I don't care about the term "sustainability."

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