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A long way from nowhere

10,000 Birds

An individually marked Great Knot was seen in Roebuck Bay and then observed on the mudflats at Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve, China, 137 hours later! For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first! It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip. Thanks for visiting!

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Compassion like that almost makes one think that we should start shooting the 1 billion humans on the brink of starvation to provide them quick and relatively painless deaths rather than slow protracted ones.] rather than a slow death from starvation." that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”