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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

This size comparison will allow you to easily select the species that best serves all your woodpecker needs. This bee-eater is another bird species with a somewhat underwhelming work ethic. The smallest on offer is the Rufous Piculet (8-9.5 So, what you see here is a female.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Third, observing and photographing breeding birds and their young have become acts of ethical confusion as birders, photographers, and organizational representatives debate the impact of our human presence on the nesting process. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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

Animal Person

He is an unabashed speciesist, putting humans on “a different moral plane from that of other animals” (11) due to various reasons, such as our “vastly greater capacity for symbolic language, culture, and ethical judgment” (11). He watched cockfighting and killed and skinned animals, but won’t eat veal. You’re right, it is horrible!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

6): I do not agree that “anyone with an appreciation for the First Amendment” must conclude that “crush videos” or videos of vicious dogfights are protected speech and that the federal law in question should therefore be struck down. If it cannot be made without sexually abusing children, it has no First Amendment protection.

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Meat

Animal Ethics

It is that coercion (via legal prohibition) is not a proper method of protecting animals, at least if the aim is to protect animals. Force, coercion, and manipulation, by comparison, are inferior on each score. My second objection, unlike the first, is unconditional, and therefore more sweeping.

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Jan Narveson on Moral Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

For we must realize that the question is whether this justifies the eating of animals in comparison with alternatives. Utilitarians persuaded of the leading premise here should, I think, be willing to pay the higher prices, and to plump for protections of animals of the kind in question. And the other is taking up vegetarianism.