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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

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Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

For those who didn't read the five-part Slate series " Pepper, the stolen dog who changed American science " by Daniel Engber , I recommend it for the history, but also for the misconceptions and assumptions that you might want to discuss on the Facebook discussion about the series. It "guarantees humane treatment?" Maybe on paper.

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KwaZulu-Natal

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At first the Zulu King Dingaan gained the upper hand by slaughtering a large contingent of Boers (including their leaders Piet Retief and Gert Maritz) but the infamous Battle of Blood River in 1838 lead to a division of the territory between what was later known as Natal to the south and Zululand to the north.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

2, 2009 The writer is dean of the College of Natural, Applied and Health Sciences at Kean University. Can anyone in good conscience be complicit with the unnecessary suffering and slaughter of another sentient being? Toney Union, N.J., Kellman San Antonio, Oct.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Farm animals also benefit from the humane farming movement, even if the animal welfare changes it effects are not all that we should hope and work for. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. If we all decide to consider animals as precious as humans, the only logical place for us is back in the jungle.

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Birding Tianmashan, Shanghai in January 2023

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As I frequently mention, science is quite wonderful. Contrary to my usual habit, I will not try to transfer this finding into the human world as I am too afraid of being accused of fat-shaming. If you are tired of watching action movies, take a look at one minute of non-action by a female Red-flanked Bluetail.

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