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On the Psychological Continuum

Animal Person

There is no philosophical continuum, but there is a psychological continuum, as evidenced by everyone at the workshop taking steps back or forward, denoting their increase in animal use (including no meat to meat, or backsliding, like I did a decade ago), or their decrease (such as when vegetarians go vegan). How about this?

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

She is not capable – physically or psychologically – of trapping and getting rid of one cat, let alone nine. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. Neighbor A calls the police, and they tell her there is nothing they can do.

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Whales Losing the Will to Live?

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The steeply declining number of whales in the world's oceans is causing the remaining creatures to suffer loneliness and 'lose the will the live', a leading expert has claimed. The psychological impact of over-hunting on the highly intelligent and sociable animals has been identified as the latest threat to the survival of the species.

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Monkey Rescued in India

Critter News

It's an adult male macaque suffering from zoochosis. The problem is characterised by the animal swaying its head and pacing up and down in its enclosure incessantly in a trance-like state, indicating it may be suffering from boredom." A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. Poor monkey!

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding

10,000 Birds

Or, as Dunning and Kruger wrote when they published their results in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. This post was originally published on 22 September 2009, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives !

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Bubbles the Chimp Resurfaces

Critter News

They are wild creatures and their psychology must suffer from these abnormal arrangements. He got too aggressive to live with Jackson's kids. This is not surprising. Chimpanzees, like Travis the chimp who mauled the woman in Connecticut, are not meant to be family pets. Well, supposedly there's a film and book deal pending.

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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

Critter News

They are not humans and it's not psychologically healthy for them to be treated that way. Who suffers? I don't care how much these people love their "babies," these are wild animals that should be with their own kind. Remember Travis? The individual primate and the species that is depleted for this "trade." Stupid TLC.

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