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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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Here’s a video. Also as video. While my recent experimentation with ChatGPT showed that ChatGPT thinks the Grey-headed Lapwing can be found in Shanghai’s Century Park, Chongming is a far better place ( video ). That includes breeding birds, as indicated by the presence of some rather cute chicks ( video ).

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Supreme Court to Review Legality of Animal Abuse Videos

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Preventing cruelty to animals, although an exceedingly worthy goal, simply does not implicate interests of the same magnitude as protecting children from physical and psychological harm," the appeals court said. The last time the court did so was over child pornography. I am incredibly angry at the last statement. That's just BS.

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Of Eagle Abduction

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When I emerged from my bedroom I learned what you, no doubt, as a regular reader have already deduced – it was the now-infamous “Eagle Steals a Baby” hoax video. Joking aside, the instant viral popularity of this video seems to me to be speaking to some deep-rooted fears in the human psyche.

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

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They have video. The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason. Actually, it's more then allegations. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees. Here is a link to the Humane Society.

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Humane Society Puts Pressure on South Carolina's Bear Baying

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Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically.

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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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There are hundreds of videos on the Internet of proud parents enjoying their monkeys, and an estimated 15,000 monkeys live with humans as pets or surrogate children in the United States. They are not humans and it's not psychologically healthy for them to be treated that way. Remember Travis? Who suffers?

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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Maybe it’s because he’s still focusing on the research that still needs to be done–a long list that he would like to see encompassing areas of economics, law, architecture, psychology, sociology, and recreation as well as biology, zoology, and ecology. It’s not a bad idea. Daniel, Bird-Window Collisions, Wilson Bull.,