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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

Whales are cows. So, for example, humans are apes. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys. If we assume (probably incorrectly) that of apes and monkeys, they all descended from a monkey like ancestor, than apes are monkeys.

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Of Birds and Bigfoots

10,000 Birds

Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. Now why should this be? Unexplained! and Canada” often with cameras at ready. Birds cryptids Eskimo Curlew Ivory-billed Woodpecker'

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H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

However, further research on animals such as whales and dolphins, although seemingly not in respect to monkeys, apes, chimpanzees, may yet reveal that man is not the only animal capable of being a bearer of rights.