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Snowy Owl Ethics

10,000 Birds

It is estimated that Snowy Owl populations in North America have declined by 52% since the 1960s (Berlanga et al. Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. Butcher, A. In The Birds of North America (P. References.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.

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