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Melange Monday

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Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). See Tim Gorski's (from Rattle the Cage) 2 minute video about humane. which includes a poll. Thank you, Susan Hargreaves.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Often it permanently disables or kills. With equal validity, we could say that a human locked inside a room has 'freedom' from muggers" (75).

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Happy 12th Birthday Violet Rays!

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Violet Rays was a very successful competitor and the offspring of a Hall of Famer, and she made someone a lot of money, winning race after race for the two years she was hauled between Oregon and South Florida. Diabetes shortens the life expectancy of human and nonhuman animals, by years. Violet was just under four-years old.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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Another paper reviews information on Oriental Pied Hornbills raiding the nests of various bird species in Singapore and even pet bird cages. The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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Birding With Alligators

10,000 Birds

It took several days in Florida for the idea that I was pretty much surrounded by giant reptiles that could kill me to sink in to my brain. According to Wikipedia : Alligators are capable of killing humans, but are generally wary enough not to see them as a potential prey. There were only nine fatal attacks in the U.S.