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On Individuals and Thanksgiving

Animal Person

Everyone was slamming on their brakes on a major road and as I crept around the mayhem I saw the reason: a turtle of some kind. Four people emerged from the cars and were practically tripping over one another trying to get to the turtle to carry him to safety. One small act of kindness perhaps, but for the turtle a life-saving one.

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Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

10,000 Birds

Shark Bay is an enormous feature, a huge bay surrounded by deserty-scrub right on the edge of the tropics. I also got my first ever confirmed Loggerhead Turtle too (and finally learned to tell them from Green Turtles , which are also there). This Green Turtle was at the feeding, under the dock! Shark Bay is pretty.

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M. P. Golding on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

One aspect of the question of whether animals have rights may now be treated. If animals have rights, then these are welfare rather than option-rights. My pet turtle does not exercise, at his option, any rights over itself, things, or people. a nonhuman animal) the sort of being that can have rights?