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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands. Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

10,000 Birds

First, he was mostly focused on the mammals. Apart from a juvenile Southern Beardless Tyrannulet we were just seeing roads and factories. He will show you mammals like Capibara but doesn’t let it get in the way of birding. This guide (location and name with the author) had three serious flaws.

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(Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs. Unlike many humans, they don't burden their bodies with flesh they didn't evolve to eat or factory stuff like hydrogenated oils or tooth-eroding sugar & acid concoctions unless given them by humans.)

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

The animal rights movement is (rightly) closely associated with protesting things like factory farming, dogfighting, etc…basically, the mistreatment of animals. Unfortunately, once we discuss anything beyond this basic point, people vastly disagree on what is right and wrong. This makes perfect sense.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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For example, Carl Cohen, who has argued at length that animals don’t have rights, admits: If animals feel pain (and certainly mammals do,), we humans surely ought cause no pain to them that cannot be justified. It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses.