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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

With its striking combination of colour rings I suspected that it would be easy to find out more about this particular bird, and I was right. That’s why the current trend to radio-tag birds reveals so much more than ringing, though it is of course vastly more expensive. The information I received didn’t indicate the age of the bird.

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Ocean Advocacy and Animal Rights

Critter News

I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. Tags: oceans marine animals. But I may not find one.

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

The way I see it, there are three camps on this one: People who think that dolphins or Great Apes or chimps could function as a gateway to other animals getting rights. You could be for or against animal rights and believe the gateway theory. Would you actually actively campaign against rights for some species?

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On the Eating of Seafood

Animal Person

"We are fighting a war against fish, and we are. That brief trailer could be a gift in the disguise of paradoxical message about how we can still kill and eat fish, yet not be at war with them. That tells me that we're still at war, as we are going to continue to kill fish because we can and we want to.

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Training a goldfish!

4 The Love Of Animals

That’s right, you can train a goldfish!! The awesome R2 Fish Training School makes it easy and fun to train your goldfish (or any fish actually, as long as it’s about an inch long). From teaching your fish to go through hoops, to playing basketball, the R2 Fish Training School has it all and then some!

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More Habitat for Snowy Plover?

10,000 Birds

Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

Meanwhile, "new speciesism" is the notion that within a paradigm where rights are included for nonhuman animals, some are more deserving of rights than others for any of a variety of reasons (e.g., Modern fishes radically differ from the fish who was the last common ancestor of fishes and humans.