Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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Egypt Culling Pigs Compassion In World Farming 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!); It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.

Dissection 235

Dissection Birds Research Europe 235

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Another bird with a mask, albeit one more suited to a party in ancient Egypt or a soiree in the Roaring Twenties. Few things are more frightening to contemplate than an ambush predator that, by nature, strikes without warning using its own deadly killing tools with efficient, lethal expertise. Lesser Ground-Cuckoo. Spectacled Owl.

Costa Rica 172

Costa Rica Bats Birds Falcons 172