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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, a man named Salvador Ramirez brought a small herd of goats from Santa Catalina Island where he was to San Clemente Island where he went to live. And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so, the U.S.

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Help. My feelings towards animals

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Hello, my whole life I have had dogs, cats, goats, and sheep, and I am a very big animal lover however recently it’s like gone to the next level and if an Animal is hurt or homeless or dying, a slow death I FEEL SO INCREDIBLY BAD. it’s so bad. it’s so bad. How do I not let it bother me so much and just accept it’s nature and things happen.

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

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I know for a fact that science is correct in stating that they don’t suck the milk of goats. Well, because I have seen many a goat’s udder, and not once did I notice a nightjar attached to it. Then again, science is definitely wrong in stating that goatsuckers have legs. They don’t, and I know it.

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On Honoring Living "Things"

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To kill Violet Rays so I may eat her (or for any other reason other than to relieve her suffering) would be a betrayal, not to mention unnecessary. The same is true for cows, pigs, fishes, turkeys, chickens, buffaloes, sheeps, goats, and many other nonhuman animals whom we call "food." This is indeed a matter of conscience.

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Resurrection

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The Stephen’s Island Wren suffered a fate common to many island species of birds around the world. Humans, and the rats, pigs, goats, dogs, cats, snakes, mosquitos and disease they bring with them have wiped out species after species on islands. Island ecologies develop in fairly closed systems.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds. Random thought: What if I had died a month ago and never heard anything from The Burning Hell, nor the new Mountain Goats song “Training Montage” … Such sad and depressing thinking.

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