10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2021
She also likes to wag her finger at you – you know who I mean: you – for your complicity, as an individual and as a member of the species, in the supposed imminent destruction of the planet. Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2021, 249 pp., $26 Thus the book is a call to arms, and perhaps a necessary one. By Kathleen Dean Moore.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
In the marshes of the estancia , he discovers what he comes to believe is a new species of rail – one of the “accidentals” of the title. And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., Accidentals.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
This is “the deep cradle of Western ornithology: the birthplace of bird study,” he tells us as he writes about gazing at the 8,000-year old depictions of “flamingos, herons, raptors, avocets and many other species” (p. Press, August 2022, 496pp., With Birkhead, you never know what’s going to come next.
Animal Ethics
AUGUST 15, 2012
The rights view is not opposed to efforts to save endangered species. If people are encouraged to believe that the harm done to animals matters morally only when these animals belong to endangered species, then these same people will be encouraged to regard the harm done to other animals as morally acceptable.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
A press release about the study likened the contrast to “the differences between humans with and without freckles.”) Genetic-based research published in The Auk indicates that the four variants of “butternuts” include at least three full species. Breeding range map by David Toews/Cornell Lab).
Animal Ethics
JANUARY 30, 2012
Properly interpreted, the common law is meant to be flexible, adaptable to changes in public morality, and sensitive to new scientific discoveries. An animal’s species is irrelevant to his or her entitlement to liberty rights; any who possesses practical autonomy has what is sufficient for basic rights as a matter of liberty.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 24, 2006
According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." They belong to the canine species Nyctereutes procyonoides. was advertised to online customers as having an "imitation rabbit fur collar."
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