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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But not long ago on a lonely road in northern Connecticut, I stopped to administer similar compassion, only to be stoutly rebuffed by a vicious snapping turtle that refused to be helped. I have done that, and afterward felt at least virtuous if not godlike.

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Pipits and the Sweet Smell of Seaweed

10,000 Birds

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A Problem with Gulls

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On Why a Bunny Might Have Two Noses

Animal Person

( AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Brian A. Pounds ) A pet store in Connecticut received a shipment of products last week. And it's not cute and sweet that the greed of humans and our obsession with profiting from every inanimate object and every living being on Planet Earth trumps compassion. Products, meaning rabbits.

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