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Any tips on cringe for a baby chick?

Reddit Animals

Yesterday my dad just came into my house with a baby chick in his hands and asked mum and me to care for it for about a week or two before he would come back and take it to the farm (idk either I'm still confused, it was so random). Does anyone have any tips, does and dont's so I don't make it sick or even more scared?

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Urban Nature Persists in San Joaquin, Heredia, Costa Rica, May 4th, 2021

10,000 Birds

Although I knew that most of the birds and animals were in some wild, far off place, that didn’t stop me from looking for them closer to home. Known as the Crested Bobwhite , this small quail persists in any number of weedy fields, even lives on some coffee farms. So far south that another, more tropical bobwhite takes its place.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

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Our guest post today is from Marty McGee Bennett, an animal behaviorist, trainer and author whose new book is called, “The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It: Let Animals Teach You How to Balance Your Weight.” Read on for some fascinating tips on how working with animals relates to our own weight!

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72 dangerous animals africa

Reddit Animals

forest buffalo goes into first ​ hyena: The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa. Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportionism it is primarily a hunter but may also scavenge, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste.

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Reasons Consistently Applied

Animal Ethics

I suspect that many regular readers of Animal Ethics are already vegetarians. That's because those who read Animal Ethics with regularity know that there are many compelling reasons to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. One cannot produce eggs or dairy products on a large scale without the wholesale exploitation of animals.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. What we do to animals shows how we feel about other species. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Indeed, we have not come far from Upton Sinclair’s “ Jungle.”