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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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How Pets Can Improve Your Health

4 The Love Of Animals

Studies have also found that: Pet owners are less likely to suffer from depression than those without pets. While people with dogs often experience the greatest health benefits, a pet doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog or a cat. People with pets have lower blood pressure in stressful situations than those without pets.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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Ingrid Taylar: Bridging the Divide Between Cat and Bird Lovers

10,000 Birds

It was Los Angeles, after all, where mileage has no bearing on time, but where time was precious for my little rescue on this crystal morning. Statistics come to life in the suffering of one dove or one mockingbird, the one needlessly stricken and dying for the sake of a personal choice. I scrambled for a box.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

But recent experiments with chimpanzees suggest that the day may be near when we can ask trained chimpanzees if they want to be eaten for food. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. Such animals would be incapable of feeling pain or having experiences of any kind. KBJ: Ditto.

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