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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

10,000 Birds

In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others. They also eat more when together with other people.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) KBJ: Ditto.

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