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Keeping Ducks and Geese as Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets. Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment.

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Keeping Ducks and Geese as Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Ducks and geese may not be a particularly unusual sight in the wild, but have you ever thought about keeping them as pets? They can make excellent, if slightly quirky, pets. Ducks and geese make excellent pets because it is interesting to watch them as they go about their activities and engage with their environment.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

He pairs conventional wisdom with actual research on such wisdom and speaks to experts who’ve been pondering the issues from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). You’re right, it is horrible!

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Black Bear

Animal Person

During a brief moment of insanity after the death of my pet kitty Brady in 1991 (at the age of 17), I attended Vermont Law School to study Environmental Law. And I didn’t properly research the ramifications of going to VLS, because if I had, I wouldn’t have been so shocked when I heard about my inevitable debt and low-paying job prospects.

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Bird Sex Voyeurs

10,000 Birds

She teaches anthropology at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA, and lives in Maryland with her husband and not nearly enough pets. America’s Puritans scrapped the common English word “c**k” to describe the male chicken and popularized “rooster” as its replacement. I think it would make a fascinating research study.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

The hollowed-out bones connected to the lungs for respiration that we see today as a key bird adaptation to the aerobically challenging behavior of flight existed in many dinosaurs that were as far way from being bird-like as, well, as a T-rex is from being your pet parrot. Archaeopteryx went right back to being a bird again.

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