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Monkey Rescued in India

Critter News

According to the article, "Zoochosis is a term used by animal rights activists in reference to the degrading effect of zoos on animals that have been kept in captivity over a long period of time. an animal can be psychologically traumatized, why in the world do we still wonder if it has any intelligence?

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On "Compassion," "Nonviolence" and "Justice"

Animal Person

When you refer to your own beliefs with "nonviolence" you rightfully invite questions about what nonviolence means and it behooves you to work that all out beforehand. I think most would agree with that one, although there is the question of psychological harm, and activists are all over the map with that.

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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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Sibley Birds East & Sibley Birds West: A Review

10,000 Birds

Psychological Effects and Mistakes” is an interesting addition, talking about how expectations may color our perceptions and the importance of being aware of the potential for bias and error. Introduction: The Introduction has many of the same headings as the 2003 Introduction, but has been completely updated and rewritten.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding

10,000 Birds

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. But what, I can hear 10,000 Birds readers asking, does this have to do with birding?

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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. This quick reference echoes the inner front and back covers of Hawks in Flight , which presents drawings of hawk species in flight facing right, with simple name identification. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.

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On Radical Abolitionism and Guilt

Animal Person

As Best writes, "Psychological and ethical change is a necessary but not a sufficient condition of the large-scale social transformations needed for creating viable democratic and ecological cultures."

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