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Gardner Williams (1895-1972) on Wronging Animals

Animal Ethics

The interests in nourishment and in gustatory pleasure lead man to kill and eat cattle, fish, and fowl. This cuts down on the long-range satisfactions of the cattle, the fish, and the fowl. An accurate quantitative comparison of the value he gains with that which the lamb loses is really impossible.

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National Geographic Complete Birds of North America, 2nd Edition: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Doing these comparisons can get a little confusing.). In other words, if you look up Cattle Egret, you will find a reference to its species account and its inclusion in the box on Identification of White Egrets. Over 70 range maps were updated. This is where the photograph appears, a representative member of the family.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

10,000 Birds

Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. The Lesser Coucal resents the comparison with parasitic cuckoos – it admits that as a fellow cuckoo species, it is related to them but takes care to bring up its chicks on its own.

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