10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The irredeemably awful and generally terrible government of Tony Abbott is flailing around and one by-election away from open war on itself, and perhaps could use a distraction to take Australia’s minds off its stances on Syrian refugees, gay marriage and war on clean energy. Is this really the nation that gave the world Monty Python?).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry.

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