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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields

10,000 Birds

In human terms, your ability to navigate your way from your home in Springfield, USA, to Bora Bora is the same ability that gets you from home to the grocery store and back, slightly adapted for a larger scale. There is a lot of electromagnetic noise created by humans, and there has been concern that this energy is harmful.

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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

10,000 Birds

Take that same stroll in southern Brazil or other places and extinction is acres of burned rainforest, a walk through plastic decorated neighborhoods devoid of insects, massive forest fires, die-offs of animals, and millions of shellfish being cooked alive , in situ. Yellow-naped Parrot (Amazona auropalliata).

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). I suspect that underlying his thinking here is a common rationalization that many of my students initially embrace. Running time: 12 Minutes.