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Humane Society University to Offer Courses in Fall 2009

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From the Humane Society's press release. Further advancing its leadership in human-animal studies, Humane Society University, an affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States, announced today that it has received a license as a higher education degree-granting institution by the District of Columbia Education Licensure Commission.

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Birds and Trash

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Of course, this requires some luck – the trash has to serve as some kind of vessel and contain some water. However, in most cases, birds lack the creativity and ingenuity common in humans to utilize trash. Overall, humanity is not doing a very good job of providing birds with the environment they need, I am afraid.

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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights

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Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. I responded. It's not profound, but an opinion. We are made in God's image.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021

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Of course, this would probably get me a telling off from Mark J. Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. Bye-bye, Yellow-breasted Bunting … Common birds can also be very beautiful, of course.

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The Fallen Yellowlegs

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I say unceremoniously – but I am using the human metric by which we decide what makes noise and what doesn’t. Over the course of the following hour or so we observed many different species *coincidentally* alight on the wall near to the body of the fallen yellowlegs.

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Do animals understand that written language has meaning?

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I've wondered before if animals can understand human speech at least to the point of knowing that it is a meaningful form of communication and there are plenty of answers to that online. But now i'm wondering if animals understand that human writing contains meaning/is a form of communication?

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A new bower in Cygnet Park-Broome

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Of course there is always something interesting about bowers wherever they are, but especially amongst human habitation. It is quite an achievement as always and the items around and in it continues to increase. Great Bowerbird bower and stolen nails and screws.

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