Word: speciesism
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Concerns over avian flu have given the birds of Asia bad press of late. But there's ample opportunity to enjoy the region's dazzling array of 1,900 bird species at a safe distance. Asia boasts plenty of sites in urban areas, or within striking distance of major cities...
DELHI Located 46 km from Delhi, the Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary is a haven for both resident and migratory birds. The best time to visit is September to March, when you can admire wintering European geese and Siberian cranes. The park offers chances to see more than 100 other species, including...
Despite all of Harvard’s cosmopolitan hauteur, wine aficionados are still an endangered species in Cambridge. But that’s okay, because it gives me something to look forward to when I come home.
In the pitch blackness before dawn one morning in late may, four boats belonging to Diego Crespo Sevilla chug out of a port in southwest Spain to enact an elaborate marine ambush. About 50 fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along...
"Look at that," Wallace says. "Isn't it weird lookin'?" He's brought his visitor to the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, where his spider collection (300 of Australia's 1,500-plus species) now resides. "That's a bird-eater. A big one can eat a frog in five hours: it...