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The Little Big Year-week 46: All this fun comes to an end

10,000 Birds

There had been reports of a couple of real rarities up in Florida ( pronounced Flor-ee-da) Canyon, just to the north of Madera Canyon, so I was up at o-dark thirty the very next day after getting the owls. By 7:30, two of the owls starting calling back and forth across the small ravine, and I had my 1300th bird!

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Why Is the Federal Government Awarding Contracts to a Company That Was Involved in Smuggling Primates?

Critter News

Now, Matthew Block is not listed as a principal of the Corporation according to the Florida Department of Corporations. The International Primate Protection League was active in exposing and urging prosecution of this case. The principals are Brooke Block (his wife) and Gertie Block (his mother). Completion date: 2002-11-15.

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On Dolphins as a Gateway to Animal Rights

Animal Person

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.

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On Food/Lifestyle Disputes At Home

Animal Person

While no study has documented how frequent these clashes have become, therapists agree that the green issue can quickly become poisonous because it is so morally charged. If he had said, "I'm never giving up my steak" I don't know if I would have lasted that long.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Sea World of Florida has directed its staff to replace tank with aquarium , and cage with enclosure " (94). "In I'd rather extend moral consideration to something that can't suffer than fail to extend it to someone who can" (154). Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

A lost pit bull mutt broke up an attempted mugging of a woman leaving a playground with her son in Port Charlotte, Florida. Is this moral? He says of this behavior, “It was a moral raven seeking the human equivalent of justice, because it defended the group’s interest at a potential cost to itself.&#.

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How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding – A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Or, that the grassland Burrowing Owls of Essay #90 (“Breeding Systems: Coloniality”), who require prairie dogs for successful nesting, are different from the Burrowing Owls of Florida, who are able to create burrow nests and breed without the ‘dogs.’