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Birding Shanghai in May 2024

10,000 Birds

” Hurray for science. ” Hurray for science. Japanese Sparrowhawks are not vegetarians. It is well known that chicks of this morph immediately start having an identity crisis when combining the knowledge of their species name with the information gathered from a look in the mirror.

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Rescue Spotlight: Kitten Rescue

4 The Love Of Animals

Sold out crowds of over 400 guests have enjoyed a vegetarian dinner complemented by cocktails with themed names such as the “Fuzzy Kitten” and the “Tom Cat”. Event partners and sponsors include: PETCO, Central Life Sciences, Natural Balance, Febreze and Dyson. Jennifer Conrad, DVM, of The Paw Project were also highlights of the events.

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

Animal Ethics

This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper?

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Introducing Myself

Animal Ethics

Keith has not only been my favorite Philosophy professor that I have studied under during the course of my college experience, but my favorite professor in general. When I came across Philosophy, I immediately saw that it was the tree from which the branch of science had grown.