10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
Melissa accompanied Danielle into the bear den for moral support, and partway into the cleaning session heard a thud. Uh …” said Danielle, pointing at a large fish lying in a corner of the bear den. “Uh Uh …” said Danielle, pointing at a large fish lying in a corner of the bear den. What was that?” asked Danielle.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2012
That and the moral reprehensiveness of slavery. From there, I do a point count every half-mile for the next 9.5, a miniature version of that well-established national citizen science project the Breeding Bird Survey. It is this kind of logistical genius that undoubtedly contributed to the failure of the South to effectively secede.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
We’re all connected through email and listservs, and we all swap information and provide each other with moral support. The story of smuggling an eagle to Canada is fiction, as it would be far too stressful even for a bird used to being around people. The rehabber connection, though, is very real. The book is darkly funny.
Animal Person
JANUARY 6, 2010
Dolphins are so smart that scientists think they should be treated as "non-human persons" and as such it is "morally unacceptable" to use or kill them. The entire discussion, I fear, will be about comparing dolphins to humans and the more human-like they are, the more intelligent they are, and the more worthy of moral consideration they are.
Animal Person
APRIL 1, 2010
No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. Modern fishes radically differ from the fish who was the last common ancestor of fishes and humans. No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2014
Many may find the inclusion of the Osprey into a post on German eagles odd, but the German name of the Osprey translates to “Fish Eagle”, and German birders would find it self-evident to include the species here. So here they are, the German eagles… Osprey. Ospreys have shown a remarkable recovery in Germany.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 4, 2006
Here is a New York Times editorial opinion about organic fish. Note that this debate is independent of the debate about the moral permissibility of eating fish. If organically raised fish suffer less than nonorganically raised fish, it is an accident, morally speaking.
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