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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. We serve them.”.

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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. It’s all about finding the highway and getting out, even as Karma shows increasing survival skills and Stark masters the art of the hunt.

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On Compassionate Bullets

Animal Person

Let's deconstruct: What we have here is the myth that killing animals in the wild and then eating them is somehow a compassionate act. After all, the goal is a corpse that is fit for human consumption, by the commenter's own admission. thinking about the ways in which the deers have a "BIG" human problem.

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