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Operation Nix-the-Petting-Zoo

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Like a "BBQ, pony rides and a petting zoo!" When I started thinking about trying to get the association to cancel the pony rides and petting zoo (which are often part of one business as a quick Google search of " traveling petting zoo " will demonstrate), my several-year vegan husband said, "What's the use?

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Laughing at you, not with you

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The shame would kill them. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. “ San Diego Zoo ” is also a nice song by the 6ths (mostly Stephin Merritt, in this song with Barbara Manning singing).

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The Struggle to Save the Birds of Honduras

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Great Green Macaw digiscoped at the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras For many centuries throughout the world mankind has kept birds as pets. Little boys kill thousands of birds each year with slingshots. Also, no one should have birds as pets. The quail, guans, ducks and pheasant are hunted for their meat.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8).

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The Lost Macaw of Cuba

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This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. Several European zoos had this species in their collections at the time, but they either made no effort to breed it or it did not breed well in captivity.

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Africa’s endangered species

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The stunning head plumes of the Gray Crowned-Crane make it attractive to bird collectors and zoos; illegal collecting of wild birds is one of the reasons why this species is now considered Endangered. A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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Some of the gruesome details are given in the abstract of the paper: “The monkey killed all the three chicks by biting off their heads while feeding on them. Louis, USA, you can see the species at your local zoo. Maybe the species has shrunk in the past few decades. Maybe this can be delegated to some interns?

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