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Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Ebola Imperils Gorilla Species in Congo Republic ” (news article, Dec. In 2003, I was in the sanctuary described in your article and collected samples from those dead animals. Historically, these diseases have been studied only when they affect human populations or domestic animals.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species. Compare, for example, the species account illustration of the Cuban Trogon with the photo that opens up the introductory chapter. The luxury of space means that each species can be shown from various angles and in distinctive poses.

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Birder, Defined

10,000 Birds

The book has garnered positive reviews in publications such as the New York Times , The Atlantic , and The New Yorker. Producing a dictionary, or a new edition of an existing dictionary, is a daunting task. Many individual species get an entry too, though they are generally not capitalized.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

Dawn Fine Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:50 pm NO Comment YourBirdOasis.com Mar 15th, 2011 at 10:07 pm Yeah, polygynandry is really weird…what other species have this breeding system? In the case of Acorn Woodpeckers, they are cooperative breeders (as with many other polygynandrous species), which seems to predispose species to polygynandry.

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