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The Animals We Use

Animal Person

I think part of the original work's problem was that it was too ambitious--not to mention expensive to produce--and everything suffered. After failing miserably at a long pamphlet in 2007, I decided to shorten it by 50% and focus on a different audience: people who use animals.

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

10,000 Birds

While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! There is a bit of science news. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. Also written up here.

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

Where do Cook’s Petrels go to forage in the summer? And if you look into it enough, it presents a classic case where science can fail us. I believe in science. Science is based on logic and evidence, which I think is a very respectable way to look at the world. Science, for many years, has done no better.

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