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Of Eagle Abduction

10,000 Birds

I was pretty sure it was fake from the get-go, because who brings their baby to a golf course in Montreal to bait eagles? I suspect that, like so many of what seem our primal instincts, the real basis is far more psychological. My friends, knowing my interest in birds, were eager to show me.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. And then comes a brief conversation about Singer and how we wouldn't use young humans, which Jentsch says is precisely why we should use primates.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

10,000 Birds

This is something not seen in very young children but then typically develops and becomes observable and testable by psychology graduate students who have done innumerable studies on it. Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species.

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