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Monkey Rescued in India

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A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. Tags: India animal cruelty macaque zoochosis. It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. It's the first time I've ever heard the term. Here's what I'd like to know.if

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Reed Parrotbill – an unofficial city bird of Shanghai

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In fact, I have had some visitors from India remark to me that “there are no birds here” – a remark I can understand given the huge number of birds encountered even in big Indian cities such as Mumbai or Delhi. This has also made the Reed Parrotbill the symbol of a local initiative to protect the wetlands of Nanhui.

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Meat Grown in a Petri Dish?

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From an opinion piece in the Times of India. So many people I know get really guilty when they hear about conditions at factory farms, but then just keep eating the same things. Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. Da da da da!

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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The Latin species name akool is not a misguided and misspelled attempt of the species to appear cool – rather, akool means restless in Hindi (even though the birds did not seem particularly restless to me, but maybe they are in India). The proud parents together – first silent … … then crooning together.

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The Ruddy Shelduck Twitch

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And finally, a few years back, I got them in India – at every other wetland. I try to reach Ceda by phone, but when I naively switched my mobile back to factory settings, I lost quite a few numbers, his among them. Some ten years ago, I almost found Ruddy Shelducks near Bodrum, in western Turkey. So I turn the engine off.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

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It is argued that beef cattle and hogs are protein factories in reserve. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. New moral vegetarianism, however, rests on moral arguments couched in terms of human welfare.

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Collaborative List – February 2019

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Without including the new pin in the map, countries this month featured; USA, Australia, Serbia, Bahrain, India, Kuwait, New Zealand, UK, Ghana and of course, Costa Rica. old angel factory area. All will be revealed in good time. The month of February has produced 838 birds noted by 10 beats who, between them, shared 114 checklists.

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