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Why do people not understand

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How smart certain animals are like gorilla Orang-Utan chimpanzee octopus crows pigs dolphins orcas etc these are all sentient animals according to recent science they should not be in zoos or anything of the sort submitted by /u/BlazingDave72x [link] [comments]

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The Dove Who Came In From the Cold

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It is responsible for some of the happiest moments of my childhood, the trips to the Buffalo Museum of Science that kindled my passion for nature; and yet, the quest for specimens ushered some of my favorite species of birds out of the world. It is driven by love for animals, but relies on their deaths to exist.

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Use it or lose it?

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I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Tourism money is vital to the survival of the world’s Mountain Gorillas, but at the same time that tourism has to be carefully managed to not harm them either, either by disturbance or through human carried diseases.

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Africa’s Barbets

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This image is from Bwindi Impenetrable Gorilla National Park, Uganda. He discovered numerous new species for science including this barbet and was the first person to confirm the existence of both Gorillas and Pygmies. Gray-throated Barbet is one of the plainer members of the African Barbet family.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# This has happened before, Archaeopteryx and the bird family tree have had an often tenuous relationship.

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