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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. Is this moral? Heinrich seems to think it is.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo. An example of this from outside hunting – Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park. Let me know how you think that will work.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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” In 1900, even before the last Passenger Pigeon’s death in the Cincinnati Zoo, Republican Congressman John F. Let us now give an example of wise conservation of what remains of the gifts of nature.” We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind.

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