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What is the State Bird of Louisiana?

10,000 Birds

In 1961 they stopped breeding in Louisiana and a few years later disappeared altogether, prompting the legislature to name them the state bird in 1966. In short, pesticide use in the 1950’s and 1960’s almost wiped them from North America. In 1970 the Brown Pelican was listed as nationally endangered.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor. But no LGU has yet put its meat-industry courses on the course of ultimate extinction.