Iím fascinated by the contrast between the amount of offence thatís taken by religion and the amount of offense that people take against anything else, like artistic taste.

He is interested in how we see as an animal, how we are interested in mimicry and camouflage.

What makes you think... it isn't just as much sport for the animal as it is for the man?

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We are seeing now one of the most remarkable traditions in the history of the human animal.

And so this is just a regular video of the animal just smashing the heck out of this load cell.

Here. Let me shuffle them. Wait a minute.

Man's still an ape and his creed's still a totem pole.

Really, for an animal, is whatever its brain needs it to be in order to assist its survival.

It is the transportable pond that allows the amniote to lay the egg on dry land.

Using recently developed zinc finger nuclease technology, any given gene can be removed from an animal s DNA.

These are the dissected gonads of an animal that has two testes, two ovaries, another large testis, more ovaries, which is not normal ... (Laughter) even for amphibians.

These are the dissected gonads of an animal that has two testes, two ovaries, another large testis, more ovaries, which is not normal ...

Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics at The Ohio State University has a large archive of animal sound recordings.

After this I saw, and behold, another, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird the animal had also four heads and dominion was given to it.

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl the beast had also four heads and dominion was given to it.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none besides me. How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.

And the reason why I say re connect it's because each and every person in this room used to be a real animal rights person at one time, a true animal lover, and a real friend to the animal kingdom.

PETA was, of course, not arguing that Holocaust victims fate was banal or trivial.

Drawings of the animal, and a written description, were sent to the naturalist Joseph Banks, then president of the Royal Society of London, who published a paper on the specimen that year.

This allows the animal to anchor its hind end in position, and force the head forwards, and then pull the rest of the body up to reach it in waves.

Other examples include use of additives in cattle feed to increase milk production or growth rates and decrease methane production per unit beef.

The conclusion PETA wants us to reach is that both the Holocaust and the mass confinement and slaughter of animals are horrific.

like to try to quantify that, to actively research about it, actually test people with statements about their favourite football team, or their favourite piece of music or something, and see how far you can go, before they take offense, compared to Ö well, is there anything else, apart from say, how ugly your face is, that gives such Ö

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Really, for an animal, is whatever its brain needs it to be in order to assist its survival, and because different species live in different worlds, there will be a discomforting variety of really s.

So for example I can rear an animal in an environment in which there is meaningless dumb sound, a repertoire of sound that I make up, that I make, just by exposure, artificially important to the animal and its young brain.

According to the court, Germany s laws on freedom of speech did not protect PETA s campaign, because to make the fate of the victims of the Holocaust appear banal and trivial was an offense against human dignity.

Small size Small size provides many advantages to arboreal species such as increasing the relative size of branches to the animal, lower center of mass, increased stability, lower mass (allowing movement on smaller branches), and the ability to move through more cluttered habitat.

These technologies could be adapted for the Pacific, as recommended in Fiji by a FAO project in 1991, with particular emphasis on the use of sugar cane and its by products as animal feed.

The court ruled against the right of the United States based animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to exhibit posters that juxtapose photographs of victims of the Holocaust with photographs of animals in factory farms and at slaughterhouses.

Irrespective of the merits of PETA s campaign, however, those who stood up for free speech at the UN Human Rights Council should be able to see that the fact that some forms of speech cause offense is not sufficient reason to censor them. If PETA is not allowed to state its case against our abuse of animals in the way that they judge best, because doing so might offend some people, then criticism of religion could also be prohibited on the same grounds.