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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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All these tender, tormented people, spending years crying crocodile tears about maimed and butchered birds, when all they had to do was close the door and keep their lethal property inside. “My The conservation implications are clear,” writes researcher Dr. Susan Willson. “If Sometimes two or three a day!”.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Butcher, A. Greg Lawrence is a long-time friend of 10,000 Birds and a birding machine in the Rochester, New York, area. References. Berlanga, H.,

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I Remember Elephants

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A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. I say they were butchered, face-off. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. One may say so.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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He pairs conventional wisdom with actual research on such wisdom and speaks to experts who’ve been pondering the issues from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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As an aside, I well remember the time that Binford came to our quaint little department at Harvard to meet with Isaac and his research team (us) to sort out this difference in understanding of human evolution. I did do some research on this topic, working with others.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. I have a difficult time understanding how someone has reached that conclusion after so much deliberation and research. The plate might have to be five feet across" (50).