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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. But if you were a biologist in training and you told your advisor you had a grant to study cows, and then took off on a boat to study whales, you would cause more confusion than necessary. Even though whales are cows. Cows do not. Nor do camels.

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Shadows of Africa

10,000 Birds

We are nearing the waterhole, and see the large oval shadow in the darkness: that White Rhino cow with a calf. If such a trend continues, we will lose these animals for good!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

4): There is a solution to at least some of the beef industry’s sustainability woes, and that is to raise cows in a pasture-based system. Specifically, the increasing meat-consumption trend could be reversed if consumers paid the true price for meat. Finishing the cattle on grass is a far “greener” method.