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Crazy Flickers

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He claims that he modeled Woody on the Acorn Woodpeckers who entertained him and his wife on their honeymoon in California. I didn’t know much about Flickers until I started volunteering at a wildlife rehabilitation center a couple of years ago. You can read a very funny account of the NPR dust-up here.)

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California.