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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources. The Notes are on the other hand well-worth reading, including documentation of the text and additional comments, even more stories, by Birkhead.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Even hunters try to justify their killing of animals with reasons, e.g., "If we don't cull the deer herd, there will be massive starvation of deer come winter, so we are doing the deer a favor by providing them a quick death (assuming accurate shooting, which one really shouldn't assume!) that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”