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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 3)

10,000 Birds

Wikipedia has a paragraph on their interesting mating system : “Home ranges are occupied by breeding groups of 3 or 4 males with 3 or 4 females. DNA fingerprinting has been used to show that, within broods, there is often mixed paternity, although the female is always the true mother of the nestlings raised within her nest.

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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Clip – Big Horn Bash: A young male big horned sheep challenges an older male to a fight. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat ” (news article, April 21): The commercial development of meat from animal tissue won’t result in “fake meat” any more than cloning sheep results in fake sheep. There is no happy ending for even the most humanely raised animal. coli bacteria or food additives.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

Animal Ethics

This sort of question can also be raised without benefit of hypothetical examples from future genetic engineering. Suppose there was a breed of sheep that became very ill when the sheep’s fleece was removed; they did not function normally. Suppose someone enjoys drinking the blood of cattle and hogs. KBJ: Ditto.