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On the Keeping of Endangered Fishes

Animal Person

Assuming that the fish are kept in a large aquarium that mimics their natural habitat, and that the keeper treats the fish as family (as they would a rescued dog, cat, rabbit, etc.), would you see keeping these fish confined in an aquarium as a rescue effort or as a selfish act by humans that interferes with Nature?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We A nestling Eastern Screech Owl they fed nothing but fish,” wrote Eileen Hagerman. I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. Like the tube-nosed birds, new world vultures detect the smells of rotting meat carried by the winds. Let’s talk about taste.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Niman gives us is to pay attention to the source of meat products and what our mothers always told us: clean your plate. To the Editor: The claims Nicolette Hahn Niman makes for how greenhouse gases might be reduced while still eating meat may very well be true, and I do not have the expertise to challenge them. The best advice Ms.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

These birds can learn to pull a string to retrieve a short stick, use the stick to pull out a longer one, then use the long stick to draw out a piece of meat. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Dog and Fish: Improbable Friends. Jethro and the Bunny. Jethro the dog.

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