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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. Yes, we have them in Shanghai as well. Blue-throated Bee-eaters build nests on sticks sticking out of the water.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

10,000 Birds

The incipient ferociousness of the hawk set against the skyscrapers, the Red-tail’s stillness against the human rush. The magical happening opened up for her an inquiry into the natural, geological history of the city, and her essay becomes a meditation on natural change and human change, and finding one’s place between the two.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

From the point of view of religion, however, the question presents a challenge. And I suspect that people become vegetarians for precisely that reason: that by doing so they overcome the residue of guilt that attaches to every form of hubris, and in particular to the hubris of human freedom.

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Disaster Preparedness Plan May Save Your Pet’s Life

4 The Love Of Animals

Flashlight with batteries. If you have cats, consider turning on the faucet so a soft steady drip is present. Most often pets are not allowed in these shelters due to reasons of human health safety. . - Collapsible water/food bowl. Canned dog/cat food. - Pet toy. - Pet blanket. Cloth towel. Basic roll of bandaging material. -

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. I eat eggs though they may come from battery hens. I am myself not so heroic.

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