Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the past decade, new discoveries of ancient human and pre-human fossils in Africa are forcing paleontologists and anthropologists to re-examine the history of the human species. Many of these important fossil discoveries have occured and are still occurring on the banks of Lake Turkana in Kenya, where...
A bizarre and motley flotilla played tag last week in the frigid northern waters off Britain's Orkney Islands. Leading the chase was the 120-ft, red-and-white-hulled vessel Kvitungen, carrying six expert Norwegian seal hunters to and fro between half a dozen uninhabited islands. Snapping at...
Normally the British government goes out of its way to safeguard gray seals, of which 100,000 are known to exist worldwide. About 14,500 of these have breeding grounds in the Orkneys, and they have been on Britain's protected species list since 1914. Lately, however, British fishermen...
Salmonella is a species of bacteria that infects dairy products, especially food made with eggs, Postel said. Diarrhea is the main symptom of such poisoning, but it is not usually a serious or fatal disease, he said.
Postel said investigators are using the state Department of Public Health laboratories to confirm the species of salmonella causing the poisoning.