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Free Bamboo the Elephant If you care about animals pass this along. In Seattle, Washington, Bamboo the elephant has been treated shamefully by the zoo ever since she was a baby -- not enough space to move in, among other things. She reacted by behaving badly, and things have gotten much worse. An elephant sanctuary in Tennessee that takes in and cares for elephants that nobody else will have -- and that gives them happy lives in lots of area to roam in -- is willing to take her, at no charge to the zoo. The zoo says no. Want to write to them and see if you can make an elephant happy? Bear in mind, elephants live to be fifty or sixty years old; does anyone really want to see her in chains for decades?

Action for Animals Stop the insane slaughter in so-called scientific labs. Learn why it is healthier to be a vegetarian or a vegan. Stop factory farming! Find out where your hamburgers REALLY come from (YECH!)
Animal Legal Defense Fund
Animal Liberation Front
The Theory and Practice of Hell Presented by the Animal Liberation Front -- facts about the group and the reasoning behind their actions.
American Fondouk dedicated to animal welfare (especially working animals) for free to the poor working people of Morocco.

Bison Slaughter: History Repeats Itself
Yellowstone Park Slaughter It's a big boondoggle!
More on the Bison story

Cats & Wild Birds Don't Mix Statistics and facts, & what you can do.
Keep Yer Cat Indoors
Indoor Cats Links
Why Cats Belong Indoors

The Fund for Animals
Humane Society
Intl. Fund for Animal Welfare
The Liberation Collective
Would you write to the FDA to stop enforced moulting of laying hens? (Want THIS in your eggs???)

Pope John Paul II Says: Animals Have Souls Controversial 1990 statement by the Holy Father.

Title: The Race To Save The Lord God Bird Author: Philip Hoose Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004 ISBN: 0374361738 Ivory-billed woodpeckers, once thought to be extinct, have been found in central Arkansas as of 2004. These birds were deliberately put to death by the hundreds of thousands in the 1800s so that women could wear them on their hats; a precious few existed in Louisiana in the 1940s before a "development" company drove them out. The destruction of the ivory-bill is a microcosm for everything that's being done to the environment by our use of non-sustainable energy and agriculture. This book was written for young adults but appeals to everyone. You might also read The Grail Bird. (Let's just hope the bird's loyal fans don't love it to death; some completely genuine sightings have gone unreported because the people who saw the bird didn't want ten zillion people stampeding into the swamps.)

Title: The Human Nature of Birds Author: Theodore Barber Publisher: Penguin, 1994 ISBN: 0140234942 Until recently, modern science has attributed animal behavior solely to instinct and genetic programming. Barber, director of the Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, challenges that view. Six years of total immersion in avian studies have led him to conclude that birds are capable of thoughtful judgment and are intelligently aware.

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Title: When The Elephants Weep Author: Jeffrey Masson with Susan McCarthy Publisher: Delta, 1996 ISBN: 0385314280 Yes, this is the same Jeffrey Masson who wrote Against Therapy and The Assault on Truth. Animals do in fact lead emotional lives, according to Masson. He has managed to find hundreds of anecdotes from the published works and field studies of such noted behaviorists as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Cynthia Moss that support his theory. It seems that, despite the fact that anthropomorphism is among the worst of scientific taboos, these respected scientists cannot help but notice the similarities between human and animal behavior.

Title: The Parrot's Lament & Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity Author: Eugene Linden Publisher: Plume, 2000 ISBN: 0452280680 A gorilla shrewdly sells back a missing key chain to the highest bidder. An orangutan picks a lock to let himself out of his zoo enclosure and two elephants adopt a tag-team strategy to keep their handlers from putting them back into theirs. In The Parrot's Lament, noted environmentalist Eugene Linden offers more than one hundred true anecdotes about animal acts of cooperation, heroism, escape--even tales of deception or manipulation of human beings. Drawing on the first-person experiences of veterinarians, field biologists, researchers, and trainers, Linden has compiled a warmly entertaining and powerfully persuasive argument for animal consciousness that, while not human, far exceeds what humans usually grant animals. Scientifically sound and emotionally compelling.

Farm Aid Help Neil Young, Johnny Mellencamp, Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews save American family farms.

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