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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

10,000 Birds

It even seems that the pliant researchers indirectly support the fighting (even though it has led to the species being one of the most hunted ones in that province) by developing a quick method to identify the sex of the bird (the males turn out to be somewhat bigger and thus presumably the more coveted fighters). Shame on the researchers.

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Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore

10,000 Birds

Most of such bird tours are branded “Borneo”, without ever mentioning the name of the country in the name of the tour. With some updates based on subsequent research, “Birds of Malaysia” taxonomically follows the “HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World”.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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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 researchers used a Cox proportional hazards regression analysis to estimate hazard ratios.

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National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

There are page references to and from the Species Accounts maps, which makes research transparently easy. Looks exactly the same at first until you notice brand-new images of the kite in flight. The wonder of research? Gull accounts are particularly long, detailing the birds’ diverse age plumages.