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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live. And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the U.S.

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Help. My feelings towards animals

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Hello, my whole life I have had dogs, cats, goats, and sheep, and I am a very big animal lover however recently it’s like gone to the next level and if an Animal is hurt or homeless or dying, a slow death I FEEL SO INCREDIBLY BAD. it’s so bad. it’s so bad.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror. Back to real birds.

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On Honoring Living "Things"

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William Horden's, " The Sacred Space of the Shared Heart " is exactly the type of piece I am talking about when I express frustration over "spiritual" people who kill nonhuman animals or who have them killed for a meal. "My The big change, of course, was my realizing that I didn't feel any remorse for having to eat animals and plants to live.

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Resurrection

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There are plans (some say fantasies) to bring back iconic animals such as Wooly Mammoth and Mastodon, along with others from that epoch such as giant ground sloth. The Stephen’s Island Wren suffered a fate common to many island species of birds around the world. Is extinction forever? Should it be?