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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I wish for a federal law prohibiting domestic and feral cats from roaming free outdoors. Twenty-four hours uninterrupted sleep,” wrote Vonda in Georgia. Summer is high season. Change in Law. That’s easy!”

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. They're not like dogs and cats, which evolved with humans. They're wild animals!

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. All of them had successfully learned the skills we taught them to forage in “safe&# areas and avoid humans. I think not!

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