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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

I want to talk about this research but if you really want to know more about it, don’t rely on me; one of the co-authors of this important paper is Darren Naish, who happens to be a stupendous blogger, and he has written the research up here. Whales are cows. So, for example, humans are apes. You should have said whales.

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H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

Thus, whilst research on chimpanzees, monkeys, and many other animals, reveals a significant degree of rationality which provides an important ground for justified moral demands that they be better treated than they now are, the degree and kind of rationality fall far short of that necessary for moral judgment and moral self-determination.