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Learning the Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Her essays are structured pieces of writing with layers of personal stories over literature over memories, punctuated with emotions, a little bit of philosophizing, and humor. She teaches essay writing as a writing professor at Bard College, but teaching doesn’t always mean one can do it, we all know that. Rogers can.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. Lucky him, right? Like other kingfishers, Blue-eared Kingfishers nest in excavated tunnels – but compared to other kingfishers, these tunnels seem to be quite short with an average length of only 25 cm. Or speluncaphobia? Back to birds. Though he ended up dead anyway.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.2

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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

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On Helping Individuals and Utilitarianism

Animal Person

Of course, I have an emotional attachment to that one individual, Violet Rays. What about the individuals right there in the laboratory? Tags: Activism Current Affairs Ethics. Or paid for food for a year at a rescue kennel. Or printed thousands of copies of vegan leaflets. But that's utilitarian thinking.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

10,000 Birds

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.

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According Animals Dignity

Animal Ethics

In this New York Times op-ed column , Frank Bruni predicts that our understanding of and concern for animals is only going to grow as scientific advances help us to understand the rich psychological and emotional lives of animals.

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The Animals We Use

Animal Person

Like part of the original, it traces the conversations I have over and over again, with good people who simply aren't educated about what's involved in the use of animals, or they are, yet they continue to not align their actions with their knowledge and what they believe to be right. And that disconnect is deadly and reeks of injustice. -.

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