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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They would pause over them and just gaze, sometimes even raising the book towards their eyes in the vain hope that this action would allow them to see more.—more Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

Animal Ethics

The question can be raised: Why should these organisms be killed and others not be killed? Second, there are other species besides human beings that have high intelligence, e.g., chimpanzees and dolphins. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) This brings us to the third attempt at justification.

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