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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

Sixty or so days later, they fledge and, with no guidance from their parents, take off across the Atlantic – the equivalent, Morgan-Greenville says, of a four-month-old human baby “walking out of the house to make its own way in the world.” But human beings are not uniformly evil. For the next four years, the bird will not touch land.

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My Favorite Release

10,000 Birds

We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. I raised them, banded them and released them back to their colony site that summer. It was like they said, “You reek of humans, go wash.”.

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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 is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas. The answer is "Yes."

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