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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

10,000 Birds

A Spanish version of the following article appeared in the 9/4/11 edition of the Honduran publication, La Tribuna. In the Far East they keep birds of prey which they use to capture other animals such as foxes and rabbits. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

1, 2009 To the Editor: As an ethics instructor who aims to inspire my students to think about the connections between their values and daily practices, I found Nicolette Hahn Niman’s article disappointing. There is little that is less polluting and less harmful to the planet than hunting wild game responsibly. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

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On Trial: Animal Torture Videos vs. Free Speech

Animal Ethics

The law was enacted to prevent the sale of videos depicting wanton cruelty to animals, such as “crush videos” in which a scantily clad woman, whose face is unseen, kills helpless animals such as rabbits and kittens by stomping on them with spike heels or her bare feet. In July, a divided U.S.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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