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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

The Asian Koel is a cuckoo species and thus freed from the obligation to raise its own chicks (though the birds like to refer to themselves as brood parasites, which sounds a bit less obviously selfish). Would it worry you to sit next to me on a plane or train and listen to this kind of information for several hours?

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. While I kind of like the species, to be honest, I only included it in this post to make references to two songs. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. You should try it too. Nothing else.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Stephanie Jenkins Highland Park, N.J.,