Animal Ethics

AUGUST 27, 2008

Once before, around the time of Plato and Aristotle, the dolphins began tentatively to approach man. Now men in desperation voyage into outer space, searching far-off planets for signs of intelligent, non-human life. In one, the philosophers join the dolphins and never return. We wait and wonder whether man is ready.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2011

The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Thousands of studies have demonstrated that human thinking about nearly everything is surprisingly irrational” (65). . Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2016

As it was when a small pod of Gervais’ Beaked Whales, small whales that look like bulked up Bottlenosed Dolphins tolerated our approach and allowed us to have a surreal experience with this mysterious marine mammal. A trip to the Gulf Stream offers an opportunity, however small most times, to come in contact with them.

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4 The Love Of Animals

JUNE 19, 2015

Regardless of whether you’re hard of hearing or have perfect hearing (for a human), this infographic will show you that – whilst us humans are a talented bunch for the most part – our hearing doesn’t compare in the slightest … Continue reading → The post The Hearing Ranges of Animals appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Dolphins appear to have saved a human from a shark. See here.

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 2, 2008

John Rodman , "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 [spring 1974]: 13-26, at 18) Jane Goodall lamely concludes that chimpanzees should be housed and fed better in the labs.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2009

It is a merit of utilitarianism, with its stress on happiness and unhappiness, that lower animals must be considered along with human beings, so that they are not debarred from full or direct consideration because they are not "rational."

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Animal Ethics

JULY 15, 2008

John Rodman , "The Dolphin Papers," The North American Review 259 [spring 1974]: 13-26, at 20 [footnotes omitted]) Note from KBJ: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that life in the state of nature is (or would be) "solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short." Can you think of other such examples in the history of philosophy?

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 30, 2012

These favor common law personhood, as a matter of liberty, at least for those nonhuman animals, such as chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, dolphins, and whales, who possess such highly advanced cognitive abilities as consciousness, perhaps even self-consciousness; a sense of self; and the abilities to desire and act intentionally.

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Animal Ethics

JULY 7, 2009

So, even if animals are killed painlessly and raised for food in humane ways, it is wrong to kill them. It is also probable that very subnormal adult human beings do not. KBJ: Martin forgot about the human beings who lack a right to life, including infants. In particular, it has been argued that animals have a right to life.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Laughing Owl, 1909, New Zealand, photo taken by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr, pp.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2022

The two best ways to find it when visiting Costa Rica are: taking a trip to Cocos Island, and watching pelagic seabird flocks associated with tuna and dolphins. In Costa Rica, the bird is rarely seen in pelagic waters of the Pacific. Take the 36 hour trip and you can also watch for it at night (when it may actively forage)!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart. So keep that in mind.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2017

When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain , Island of the Blue Dolphins , and Julie of the Wolves. Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. We documented the relocation of several turtle nests.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. People have reported dolphins struggling to save a dead calf by pushing its body to the surface of the water. Jethro and the Bunny.

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Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

If some microorganisms must be killed in the process, this is unfortunate but necessary for human life. Why should microorganisms be sacrificed rather than humans? Why is human life more valued than the life of microorganisms? One might be inclined to say that human beings are more valuable because of their intelligence.

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