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Animal Rights Zone Launches Today

Animal Person

I'm excited to be a blogger for Animal Rights Zone because its target market is people who don't usually subscribe to blogs. Also, it has the added bonus of organizing my content better than I have. The goal is to provide blogospheric content that is easy to find, and from a variety of sources. Today is the launch of.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

And she is very conscious of the ethics involved in the scientific processes she describes, even interviewing an ethics specialist on whether we should be burdening tiny birds with our scientific apparatus. And reading the table of contents (trust me, most people do not read the table of contents).

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Mastering Bird Photography: A Book Review by an Amateur Bird Photographer

10,000 Birds

The section on shooting birds in snow, for example, covers how to expose for snow (to the right), the consequences of different shutter speeds (fast shutter speed to show individual snowflakes or slow shutter speed to show streaks?), Photography & Ethics & Me. ” (p. This may be different in the Kindle version.

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A Great Ornithologist’s Plea: Scale Back The Playback

10,000 Birds

But today I am approaching it from a different angle…I will speak not of whether or not it causes stress or disturbance to birds (the usual point of contention), but rather how it causes stress and disturbance to birders. Ironically, he eventually saw it because as it was making it’s escape, it flew right by him.

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The Wonderfulness of Local Field Guides: Reviews of ABA Field Guide to Birds of Maine & Birding Guide to the Greater Pasadena Area

10,000 Birds

Additional helpful design features include the names of family groups against a yellow-and-white striped background on every page corner and having every bird image facing right (except for that Common Loon chick!), I found the latter, printed on one page and easily accessed on the inside back cover, particularly useful. Scott & Nix, Inc.,

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On Google, HSUS and Fur

Animal Person

Many bloggers who are pro-animal rights have either not used Google's AdSense or stopped because they discovered that, for instance, their anti-fur post was surrounded by ads for fur. We all know that the ads are generated by computer based on the content. Tags: Activism Current Affairs Economics Ethics.

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Leonard Nelson (1882-1927) on Duties and Rights

Animal Ethics

For every person, being a subject of interests, has rights, i.e., has a claim to respect of his interests under the law of equality of persons. Under the moral law, all beings who have interests are subjects of rights, while all those who in addition to having interests, are capable of grasping the demands of duty, are subjects of duties.

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