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On Fighting for "Animal Rights"

Animal Person

A couple of years ago I wrote about whether it's a good use of my time to be a purist about the term "animal rights" when most of the world doesn't have the same understanding of the term as I do. Or how a paragraph would refer to animal rights and animal welfare as if they're interchangeable. But that's me.

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Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

10,000 Birds

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised.

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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

10,000 Birds

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. 10000birds.com/definitively-the-egyptians.htm. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. My first ever Balkan Egyptian Vultures!

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Kathy Hershey: Parker, the Playground’s Vulture

10,000 Birds

Animal control authorities had been on his trail for weeks. Local animal control, the police, and our rehabilitation center were all called, but he proved uncatchable. Death threats came rolling in from frightened parents, and the police were furious that animal control authorities couldn’t do their job.

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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

Untamed Americas ” is a high-definition miniseries event narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. The animals that live there not only endure, but adapt and thrive in surprising ways. Untamed Americas: Coasts.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

Stephanie's post about " The Compassionate Hypocrite " on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other " compassionate carnivores " are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. It's cruel. No argument here.

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Nature’s Ambassador: The Legacy of Thornton W. Burgess, by Christie Palmer Lowrance

10,000 Birds

Tom French of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (not, however, any Japanese animators — the “Legacy”, in the world of this book, does not extend to television, which seems a curious omission.).