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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

10,000 Birds

Great Horned Owls ( Bubo viginianus ) are a favorite of mine and I have been fortunate to observe a pair of these magnificent raptors raise their young in a nearby natural cavity in a huge oak tree. The owlet looking up to the parent bird is the one currently being fed.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! The most spectacular case was in Krasnoyarsk Zoo (Russia), where people could watch the life of very interesting and strange family, consisting of four puma cubs, stray dog Mary and baby-badger.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? That was one of his cats.