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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

Consider some examples: NAMED FOR OTHER BIRDS. For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Then again, Geothlypis trichas was ever so briefly called the Maryland Yellow-throat , but cooler heads recognized how very common this warbler was.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. The noxious fumes from the accumulated urine and feces cause lung problems in many of the animals.