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The Urban Birds of Austin, Texas

10,000 Birds

We had seen a chicken or two so far on our walk, but it was hilarious to see this much larger domestic bird sitting between doves and starlings. After all, part of getting to know any city is learning its non-human inhabitants! These birds live in Texas and the southwest, and until that power line I had never seen one.

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

I did tweet about " Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated As 'Non-human Persons' " yesterday, as I think this is a Gray Matter for a lot of people and might be interesting to explore. and chickens don't?) Something about jockeying for position in 140 characters or less, rather than interacting and sharing, I guess.

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