Animal Person
JULY 3, 2009
Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). The scientific investigation of morality, in humans and nonhumans alike, is in its infancy" (39).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.
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