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Tri-colored Herons on the water front of La Paz.

10,000 Birds

Visiting tourists, getingt to enjoy the water front views, small quaint shops, and restaurants, also get to watch the Tri-colored Herons chasing small crabs and fish. They are quite active feeders, often seen chasing fish around in circles. The Bill will have a blue gray base during the breeding season.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. Modern fishes radically differ from the fish who was the last common ancestor of fishes and humans. No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear.