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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

Aptly called the tube-nosed birds, on account of their raised and highly visible nostrils, these species are able to hone in on oceanic food from several miles away, based on smell alone. I remember watching a David Attenborough episode once where he tested the theory that new world vultures could locate carcasses by smell alone.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. Indeed, many paleoanthropologists maintain that the evolution of the large, energy-hungry human brains depended on a transition of our ancestors’ diets to include meat. It’s all good advice from the point of view of doing better by animals. Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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On Responding to Jokes that Feature Animal Abuse

Animal Person

After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing 'fairly well' for my age. (I my former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!" "Do I'm fairly sure that if I raise this topic it won't go over well, and outside of this issue there are no problems, but it's a big one for me. She jokes about it.