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  2. Commodity status of animals - Wikipedia

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    Writing about wild animals being imported into France in the 18th century, historian Louise Robbins writes that a "cultural biography of things" would show animals "sliding in and out of commodity status and taking on different values for different people" as they make their way from their homes to the streets of Paris. [20]

  3. National Animal Identification System - Wikipedia

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    The National Animal Identification System (NAIS) Premises ID Adopted for Illinois Fairs; The Lunatic National Animal Identification System: This is the Marx Brothers, bumbling around Animal Farm!, The Hightower Lowdown, September 2007; Collection of Articles of Interest on NAIS; USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program

  4. Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.

  5. Animal identification - Wikipedia

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    Photo-identification is a technique used to identify and track individuals of a wild animal study population over time. It relies on capturing photographs of distinctive characteristics such as skin or pelage patterns or scars from the animal. In cetaceans, the dorsal fin area and tail flukes are commonly used.

  6. Animal tattoo - Wikipedia

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    An animal tattoo or pet tattoo is a tattoo that a person has placed on an animal, which may be for animal identification, aesthetics, or artistic purposes. Animal identification via tattoo is a practice within the agricultural industry , at breeding farms , in scientific laboratories, and in the identification of domesticated pets . [ 1 ]

  7. Intrinsic value in animal ethics - Wikipedia

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    Instrumental value is the value that others confer on an animal (or on any other entity) because of its value as a resource (e.g. as property, labour, food, fibre, "ecosystem services") or as a source of emotional, recreational, aesthetic or spiritual gratification. Intrinsic values are conferred from within an animal, and are therefore not ...

  8. List of felids - Wikipedia

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    Blue is the range of Felinae (excluding the domestic cat), green is the range of Pantherinae. Felidae is a family of mammals in the order Carnivora, colloquially referred to as cats. A member of this family is called a felid. [1] [2] The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to domestic cats.

  9. Benjamin (Animal Farm) - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin is a donkey in George Orwell's 1945 novel Animal Farm. [1] He is also the oldest of all the animals (he is alive in the last scene of the novel). He is less straightforward than most characters in the novel, and a number of interpretations have been put forward to which social class he represents as regards to the Russian Revolution ...