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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. If not knowing this information any longer and thus suspecting you might be suffering from dementia, there are always some other animals around to facilitate assisted suicide. Back to birds. Lucky him, right?

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. And now that I've read Animal Equality and begun Speciesism , I think I know why. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture."

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