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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

White-chinned Petrels are tube-nosed birds Adam Riley Unlike all other birds which have nostrils at the base of the bill, the kiwis from New Zealand, have them located at the bill tip. Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

Critter News

This may take time and maybe lifetimes to build up to that tipping point, but we have to use everyone and every resource we can. Is a vegan's efforts at advocacy worth more than a vegetarian's or even a meat eater's if they happen to agree on the same issue? I do think that there is a real elitism in the movement, however.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Jonathan Spitz Westfield, N.J.,