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"The Cove" Continues to Disturb

Critter News

Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Herzog states, “The awkward fact is that most wanton animal cruelty is not perpetrated by inherently bad kids but by normal children who will eventually grow up to be good citizens” (34). . The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).

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John Rodman on Theriophobia

Animal Ethics

John Rodman , "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 [spring 1974]: 13-26, at 20 [footnotes omitted]) Note from KBJ: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that life in the state of nature is (or would be) "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short."

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South Florida Specialties Birding

10,000 Birds

The Dolphin Mall to be precise, where ponds in front of the mall are the best spot around to see Gray-headed Swamphens , yet another introduced species that has proliferated to the point where they are countable in Florida. How convenient! Darned bankers… Our next stop was also designed to annoy me.

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