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Stamps in a Weathered Passport

10,000 Birds

Our local guide, Stuart, informed us that the small flags flying in front of some structures advertised what they sold: white for dairy, yellow for homemade wine, and red for meat. Products that the herders bartered for. While driving along and looking for flags, I noticed my lifer hyrax, a large, angry-looking groundhog-like mammal.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Take a moment to tell your governor you agree we must get our LGUs out of the meat industry. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training!

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Birding the Eshowe area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The African Pygmy Goose to me looks a bit like an annoying teenager on a subway train who wants to highlight the fact that he wears enormous earphones. While it also eats dead meat and carcasses like its relatives, its favorite food is palm nuts. It still looks pretty much like a Purple Swamphen to me. In a distinct color.

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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat. Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. In a perfect world, people would know better.

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

Critter News

First of all, it highlights the deficiencies of today's chefs' training. Throughout the entire show, the judges and contestants always refer to their meats as the "protein." Protein is not dependent on meat at all. I've seen two chefs wear stupid meat-inspired shirts. Tags: exotic meats meat cooking.

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Birding Before Hurricane Irma

10,000 Birds

Still, I knew the winds of the hurricane could bring interesting bird species, so I ventured out Saturday morning, a day and a half before the meat of the storm made it up to northern Florida. The wind whistled through the dune grasses and low bushes on the Santa Rosa Sound side of Navarre Beach Park, where I began a three-mile birding loop.

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On a New Level of Absurdity in the Slaughter Business

Animal Person

And they were, before they stopped their train of thought prior to it reaching its most important station. Words like 'pastured,' 'grass-fed,' and 'free-range' are now synonymous with quality meat; they carry a potent if symbolic meaning that has eased many a consumer’s conscience and driven many a marketing campaign."

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