Animal Person

MAY 24, 2009

I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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Egypt Culling Pigs Compassion In World Farming 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 234

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

The part of the paper available online describes a video in which “the hornbill pair was seen side by side, observing the swiftlets movements entering and/or exiting while being about a foot away from the square entrance of the roof. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 131