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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. It’s amazing how personal the book can be. This lake is close to the cave.

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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

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One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. Since the last time it was made fun of in my blog, the Marabu Stork has not gotten any prettier. ” (HBW). students comes in handy).

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Africa’s Barbets

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Naked-faced and Bristle-nosed Barbets occur in the forests along the west coast of Africa, Gray-throated in central Africa’s rainforests and Sladen’s is endemic to great rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Their generic name Gymnobucco translates to “naked-trumpeter” as a result of these features.

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