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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. High Technology. Personal Things. “A

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He’s also Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wheaton College, Massachusetts. I don’t have a copy of the 2006 edition, but I was able to read selected pages via Google Books. This new edition accomplishes two things: It updates taxonomy, distribution, and conservation challenges, and it adds illustrations, lots of illustrations.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). We have already seen that Jonathan thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily. What does he think about killing animals?