10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. In these rural areas, public transportation is still mostly based on rather old-fashioned modes.

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China Birds Pythons Rabbits 219

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2023

The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. Hemoglobin is a key molecule in transporting oxygen from the lungs to the individual cells requiring it for their metabolism. While Giant Pandas are celebrated in today’s China, this was not always the case. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%.

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Pandas Birds Eggs China 218

Animal Ethics

MARCH 10, 2008

They conclude: Our results suggest that future anthropogenic [human-generated] emissions would need to be eliminated in order to stabilize global-mean temperatures. s per capita greenhouse gas emissions are twice that of Europe and nearly 8 times that of China. Take public transportation when possible.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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