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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. Back to birds. The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons.

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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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