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

10,000 Birds

The Bill will have a blue gray base during the breeding season. This one caught a nice fat salamander. The wings show the bright white underwing coverts and belly when in flight. Once the tide has gone out, then they hunt for the many fine meals that are hidden under the surface of the mud.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear. It moves society closer to the view that all forms of speciesist exploitation--from dog breeding to commercial fishing--are morally wrong (151). No nonhuman alive today belongs to the same species as some ancestor of humans.