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Victor's Earth Day VideoHere is a video of my budgie named Victor who had a vocabulary of over 1000 words and understood their meaning as well. He understood everything he said and was able to speak full blown English. If you use headphones, and follow the captions provided you should be able to understand much of ...
Ryan Reynolds
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6 months ago
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Discovery Channel :: News - Animals :: Animal Intelligence Resists DefinitionPeople generally define intelligence in terms that place our own species at the apex, but recent studies on other animals suggest skills such as abstract thinking, problem solving, reasoning, and language — once thought unique to us — may not be so uncommon after all. "The closer we examine ...
Calvin Smith
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8 months ago
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Seed: Of Primates and PersonhoodTwo major legal developments in the past few months are deepening a schism between leading primatologists, biologists, and ethicists around the world. A pending Spanish law that would grant unprecedented protections to great apes, and a recent extension to a Swiss law that protects the "dignity" ...
Calvin Smith
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11 months ago
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The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical RodentsVideo: The World's First Surfing Mice - The Radical Rodents
Calvin Smith
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12 months ago
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Overcoming Bias: Animal experimentation: morally acceptable, or just the way things always have been?Following the announcement last week that Oxford University’s controversial Biomedical Sciences building is now complete and will be open for business in mid-2009, the ethical issues surrounding the use of animals for scientific experimentation have been revisited in the media—see,...
Calvin Smith
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12 months ago
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Federal Officials Sued For Misappropriating Millions of Dollars to Illegally Campaign Against California Anti-Cruelty InitiativeYes on Prop 2 - Californians for Humane Farms, the proponents of an anti-cruelty ballot initiative that will provide basic protections to California farm animals, filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal district court against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the American Egg Board ...
Dan Brehmer
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15 months ago
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Great ape personhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGreat ape personhood is a movement to create legal recognition of bonobos, common chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans (the non-human great apes) as bona fide persons.
Calvin Smith
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15 months ago
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Animal Rights - By Peter Singer and Richard A. Posner - Slate MagazineA debate between Peter Singer and Judge Richard A. Posner on the subject of what, if any, ethical obligations humans have to animals.
Calvin Smith
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16 months ago
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Animal welfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAnimal welfare refers to the viewpoint that it is morally acceptable for humans to use nonhuman animals for food, in animal research, as clothing, and in entertainment, so long as unnecessary suffering is avoided
Calvin Smith
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16 months ago
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Peter Singer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaWikipedia on Peter Singer, whose Animal Liberation argued for animal rights via utilitarian justifications based on the capacity of animals to experience suffering.
Calvin Smith
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16 months ago