10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
The moral of the story: As our knowledge of genetics grows, and this tool becomes more accessible to more researchers, things we think we know about birds may change. Breeding range map by David Toews/Cornell Lab). For now, don’t worry about reworking your checklists.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Reasonable people can disagree on the conservation impacts on hunting, on the benefits and costs, and on the morality and wisdom of using it as a conservation tool. But there has to be a conversation.
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Crows from the remote Pacific island of New Caledonia show incredibly high-level skills when they make and use tools. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees. They can add features to improve a tool, a skill supposedly unique to humans. Is this moral? the Spring 2011 issue of YES!
Animal Person
JUNE 1, 2009
But now the blinders are coming off, and it is time Leftists take their own off and wake up to the fact of the ethological revolution and its profound implications for human identity, our moral relationships to nonhuman animals, and to politics. Related articles by Zemanta Rooks can use tools 'just like chimps' (guardian.co.uk).
Animal Ethics
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. Success requires nothing less than a revolution in our culture's thought and action. Might does not make right; might does make law. Still, it can make a contribution.
Animal Person
APRIL 26, 2009
But the ease with which we can tell our stories and post our videos must not render us incapable of moral judgment and decency. However, it's tough not to cock your head when you read: The internet has given free speech a whole new impetus. What do you think?
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