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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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To quote Camus again (The myth of Sisyphos) at the massive risk of appearing intellectually pretentious, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide” (Of course, there is always the Monty Python alternative of just stating “And now for something completely different).

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

There is a list of human victims of captive snakes, including a 2-year-old girl who was strangled in her crib by a pet Burmese python who had escaped from its enclosure. Snakes may die during the capture and transport process, or they may be housed inhumanely in a small aquarium they can barely fit into.

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Birding across the north of Australia in July

10,000 Birds

On other occasions we would encounter numerous caravans being towed or large trucks up to 54 metres long transporting fuel or cattle and we would wisely leave the bitumen if it was not a full width road and let the larger vehicles pass. It was an incredible time on the road and one which I will expand on over coming weeks.

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