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On Wipeout and Lion Burgers

Animal Person

Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Interviewer: "Cows, okay, there's another one you kill. If you kill animals or pay someone to do so for you, you support animal cruelty. Contestant: "And turkeys.". I think you actually support animal cruelty."

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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Several members of the Audubon Society said the plan fails to answer questions about how cats will be managed and what rights neighbors will have if the cats become a nuisance. But it’s something in the right direction.”. First Amendment rights are in question here,” Moriarty said. First amendment rights? No,” he said.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. And when you think about it, that seems right.

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Twenty Years Ago

Animal Ethics

There was a senseless killing last night. Someone entered the premises of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum , cut the lock on the bighorn sheep exhibit, and shot the male bighorn to death. Police officers speculate that the killing was cult related. Whatever the circumstances, I can't help but think of the killing as a murder.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

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A column entitled "Ag Industry Threatened by Animal Rights" appeared in today's High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal [ HPMAJ ]. The proposition outlaws raising pregnant sows in gestation crates and raising calves in veal crates , making Arizona the first state in the Union to ban veal crates. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

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I think it’s because it brings me back to my first big birding trip, to southeast Arizona, where we had tantalizing views of leaves rustling where the becards had nested but nested no more. Tragic, right? There’s something about a Rose-throated Becard that makes my heart go pit-a-pat. I never saw the bird.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

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This year the big prize must go to Tom who has pushed himself, right to the wire to acheive a magnificent score for a self-funded, wife-organised, wife-sponsored Little Big Year , accounting for 57% of the total. Mexican Whip-poor-will – Antrostomus arizonae. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573).

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