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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

For example, I could recommend that you read the story above in its original German language as the “subtleties of Kafka’s mastery of the language are not fully covered in the translation”). Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. she’s Texan. she shot a rhino (auctioned for conservation).

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. This is good stuff. There is no effort at context.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.