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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal. As the wound heals, this is replaced with larger and larger lip plates until they are able to stretch their lower lip over the back of their head and can wear lip plates of 5-inches or more in diameter!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. if they see a mistreated dog, and shudder to see a wounded deer in the road. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., The vast number of meat eaters brake for geese, call the A.S.P.C.A.