10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). As it is critically endangered (there are only about 100 left), I think it can be forgiven for killing the occasional Pale Thrush (which is listed as Least Concern). Guantanamo for frogs.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport.
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Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?
Animal Person
JUNE 20, 2009
And the absurdity is in the reality that the author and the featured person who kills sentient nonhumans for a living, think they're onto something. While plenty of people pay attention to the question of what it means to raise an animal humanely, far fewer stop to consider the notion—and the ostensible paradox—of humane slaughter."
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