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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

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What seeds does a Baird’s Sparrow eat? Non-human beings have traditionally thought of on a basically immoral level…they lack any intrinsic values, are incapable of thoughts and emotions, and are only worth how good of a coat they make or how good they taste. What does a Flammulated Owl do all night? But I digress.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

That is when he hit upon the idea of a non-human serving as the chorus: I did not fail to perceive, in short, that the difficulty lay in the reconciliation of this monotony with the exercise of reason on the part of the creature repeating the word. .

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