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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

Whales are cows. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows. Whales emerge from within the larger group of mammals that includes cattle, deer, pigs, camels, with camels being the most deeply rooted. (So So pigs are camels, as you probably already suspected.) You should have said whales. Cows do not.

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Play the silly word game my spouse and I came up with: "The Lazy Naturalist"

Reddit Animals

It is NOT a lion; is a fish.) - Whale shark, 1 point. Not a whale; is a shark.) - Tarantula hawk wasp, 2 points (not a tarantula; not a hawk) - Bear cat, 3 points (not a bear; not a cat; +1 bonus point for being neither) - Peacock mantis shrimp, 4 points. (The they are not horses or pigs, respectively).

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J. Baird Callicott on Wild Life

Animal Ethics

The land ethic, in sum, is as much opposed, though on different grounds, to commercial traffic in wildlife, zoos, the slaughter of whales and other marine mammals, etc., dogs, cats, pigs, cows, and chickens); cell 4 (the southeast quadrant) contains domesticated plants. as is the humane ethic.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys.