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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

10,000 Birds

At some point, a Chinese researcher had a brilliant idea: Let’s prepare a paper on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Grey-backed Shrike! The Latin species name of the Slaty Bunting is siemsseni , after Georg Theodor Siemssen (1816-1886), a German merchant born in Hamburg, my favorite German city.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason. For example, the famous Framingham heart study has been tracking the daily living and eating habits of thousands of residents of Framingham, Massachusetts since 1948.