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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." I haven't examined each institutionalized use of animals the way that Dunayer has, with the possible exception of vivisection, and I learned a lot about the details of the language of each industry.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Is this moral? She wanted to get into the same stall with Shirley.

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Should is not a Solution

10,000 Birds

I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” Perhaps it would be better to move the tigers to that bigger reserve, or maybe a zoo. At any rate, regardless of the should that tigers should be allowed to live in their reserve, in the absence of limitless money it isn’t going to happen.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo.

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