Critter News

MARCH 31, 2009

The most famous example of military dogs is the Vietnam dogs who faithfully served American soldiers and then were abandoned to unknown fates after we left the country. But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan. If humans insist on wars and invasions, we should keep them to ourselves and leave other species out of it.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2021

He tells, for example, of sitting close by a fox den, and watching a raccoon walk past it with a look of acknowledgement. He’s somewhat of a devotee of the tracking and bushwork guru Tom Brown, Jr.) The coon wasn’t scared, McMullan explains, because it can hold its own with a fox in a fight.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Larks, for example. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines. Perhaps it’s because the topic is so huge, it’s difficult to comprehend in a systematic way.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

The way things should be is a very powerful motivating factor in human lives. By way of example form the world of politics, what could possibly be wrong with deposing a murderous monster of dictator and replacing him with a free and fair democracy? An example of this from outside hunting – Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park.

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JULY 9, 2014

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. But by the same token, it isn’t necessarily a good idea either. Shot a rhino?

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

Example: A reference to "still undemocratic Iraq" makes the assertion that eventually Iraq will be democratic. Using the human-appropriate relative pronoun "who" to refer to an animal is a planted assertion that animals should be considered in the same way that humans are considered.

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