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Critically Endangered Birds in Costa Rica- How to See Them, How to Help Them

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However, birders should definitely keep an eye out for this petrel during pelagic trips that reach or pass the continental shelf. Listen for their distinctive human-like calls and watch for them in morning and late afternoon flight in such sites as the Tarcoles area, around Palo Verde National Park, and around Santa Rosa National Park.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Another puzzling thing to me, as for me, the ideal number of people to live with would be somewhere between zero and one but definitely not above 1. ” I can see how this line of thinking leads to all kinds of sci-fi types of thought (“would I mate with an alien if I was the last human on earth”, etc.), How efficient.

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On Compassionate Carnivores and Betrayal

Animal Person

Stephanie's post about " The Compassionate Hypocrite " on Saturday reminded me of what Catherine Friend and other " compassionate carnivores " are doing in addition to twisting the definition of compassionate beyond recognition. It's impersonal and hideously ugly and the animals suffer greatly. It's cruel. No argument here.

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Is Charles with Lars Axl Fokker?

Animal Person

Charles is looking down on me, Charles' soul is running, Charles is with Lars Axl Fokker (Emily's son, to whom she passed her Feline Infectious Peritonitis, which he suffered from before we euthanized him nearly a decade ago). Charles is definitely with me in spirit, but I don't know if there is a spirit.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

In the majority of cases, it is humans who are to blame for the plunging numbers of animals, and Corwin is very clear about the extent to which we have destroyed the world around us. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

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Once a definite social movement got under way in the West with its objective the restricting of man's treatment of animals, it moved with relative rapidity. The degree of restriction placed on human behavior, furthermore, is relatively slight.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

Animal Ethics

These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. To avoid this complication, Martin should have stipulated that no suffering is involved in the production of animal legs. Suffering is more than pain. Think of the suffering involved in solitary confinement.