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Disneynature Earth Q&A

4 The Love Of Animals

Disneynature’s first film, Earth , which comes out on Earth Day (April 22,2009), follows three animal families across the globe. Inevitably, it’s a situation where you were there, and for me, it’s the swimming male polar bear. When you see a dying male polar bear and you’ve been with that animal for a long time, it is hard.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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The crowd of macaws is soon joined by parrots arriving as if on cue and bearing their colorfully named body parts: Yellow-crowned , Blue-headed , White-bellied , Orange-cheeked , and Mealy – followed by two species of parakeets – Dusky-headed and White-eyed. • Explore These Related Posts What is the National Bird of Honduras?

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Happy birding, Dale Forbes Tags: accentors , Alpine Accentor , Birds , features , polygynandry • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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Orange-headed Thrush

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Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. A three-part trip report for Hong Kong including the Orange-headed Thrush and visiting Tai Mo Shan , Cheun Lung Family Walk, and Aberdeen Reservoirs, can be found on Redgannet. The former British colony’s Z.c.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

Suppose there is a man who wishes to end his life but regrets never having given his poor and hungry family any pleasure. The members of his family have no objections; on the contrary, they rather relish the idea. This, however, is not our world, so I don’t understand the bearing of the question. If they can, then they may.

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