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Is Medical Research on Animals REALLY the Only Way?

Critter News

This story on HIV research is one example. Many people feel very uncomfortable with animal testing, even scientists I think, which is why they often get so emotional and defensive about their research. Tags: animal experimentation medical research monkeys. This was disappointing for a variety of reasons.

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Guest Post: Bonding with your kitten.

4 The Love Of Animals

Some kittens will have certain things that they do when they are happy or when they want attention, for example, and by observing this behavior you will be able to pinpoint your kitten’s emotions better throughout its life, which is a wonderful bond that you can share. Tags: guest post. Guest Post: Bonding with your kitten.

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On "Wild Justice"

Animal Person

Furthermore, "We need to be careful about language and remember that [for example] altruism has a specific meaning within biology and isn't synonymous with morality" (82). Tags: Books Ethics Language. [T]hey may be acting independently and simultaneously, without any cognitive decision to work together" (64).

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Flame Bowerbird, for example. The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Here are a few examples from my picture archives: Black-headed Gulls – or Black-haired Gulls? Gulls are deep and meaningful creatures.

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On Letting Your Emotions Rule the Day

Animal Person

However, many of our concerns about modern food production stem from purely emotional concerns, in which we try to overlay our social mores onto sectors where they traditionally haven’t been applied. A prime example of this is our concern for the welfare of animals in agriculture.". What's all this about emotion, anyway?

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