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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. Next time, I’ll know why.

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Year of the Eagle

10,000 Birds

By year three, the adults were practicing the eagle equivalent of human “hover parenting.” Scientific experiments would be needed to demonstrate true cause-and-effect, but the extra attention appeared to pay off. Further, they would make sure that both of their young eagles were fed. They would feed a bite to one.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

Even the most ardent defenders of the morality of using animals for food and as “tools” in scientific experiments admit that premises (1) and (2) are true and acknowledge that (1) and (2) capture something central to our moral relationship to animals. Premise (7) is clearly true, but don’t take my word for it.