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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

10,000 Birds

They hatch in burrows which are located (most of them) on a couple of islands on the British west coast. But there is, apparently, and thanks to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, some good news on the rat front in that part of the world.). But human beings are not uniformly evil. Stupid, yes, maybe, but not evil.

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The Raptor Situation in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

It’s a fine selection of birds for a place the same size as West Virginia but it also comes with a catch commonly found in tropical forest ecosystems. While there’s a lot of protected habitat, with so many other raptors and birds to compete with, each species has a pretty small population.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

That animal product is human breast milk. Human breast milk is a near perfect food for human newborns and infants. 105-6) Dr. Spock is not alone in his endorsement of breast-feeding human infants. There simply is no dispute in the medical community that human breast milk is the best food a human infant can be fed.

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