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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. If they are "only" animals, if they are beasts which abstract not, then my comparison is a piece of sentimental foolishness. But chimpanzees can abstract. They have certainly committed no crimes.

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On "Wild Justice"

Animal Person

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). Tags: Books Ethics Language. But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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At the same time, the last remaining larger mammals and birds are being blasted by hunters to supply the insatiable demand for bushmeat, a market that in Ghana alone is estimated to generate revenues of up to US$350 million per annum. The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here.

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