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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Or speluncaphobia? The Stork-billed Kingfisher is much bigger and easier to see. Back to birds. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

But I found that if my goal was for my message to be received, I had to judiciously use accurate terms because there was an intense emotional reaction to them that prevented the message from being received intact, or unadulterated by the emotional baggage. Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies.

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