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My favourite bird hide

10,000 Birds

If you are considering a vehicle for the outback and birding it is useful to have a Roo Bar, which protects your radiator if you have a close encounter with a kangaroo. You will notice there are side steps on the vehicle and they are officially there to protect the paintwork from stone chips on unsealed roads.

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Serendip Sanctuary, Victoria

10,000 Birds

Serendip Sanctuary is a 250 ha protected area that is near the You Yangs and the small town of Lara, Victoria. It is free to enter Serendip Sanctuary and as you drive or walk up the road into the parking area there are opportunities to see kangaroos and wallabies as you can see above.

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H. J. McCloskey on Punishment of Cruelty to Animals

Animal Ethics

Certainly a strange mode of justification is offered along the lines of interpreting animals as weaker members of the community, as individuals who cannot protect their own interests, and who therefore need the sort of protection extended to others such as children, lunatics, etc., who cannot protect their interests.

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