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Pigeons have tiny compasses in their heads

10,000 Birds

There is a certain amount of communication among different people at which time data is exchanged, but far far less than most armchair Hunting and Gathering experts (like, most archaeologists) would ever guess. Knowledge is more likely to be shared via shared experience than the exchange of data, though both happen.

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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.] You don't find many hunters who candidly and unapologetically say: "I hunt because I like to kill.