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

10,000 Birds

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.

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“Peacocks and Picathartes: Reflections on Africa’s Birdlife”

10,000 Birds

In case you didn’t know, yes, there is an indigenous peacock living in Africa, the Congo Peafowl. The revelation of the Congo Peacock to the ornithological community is one of the greatest bird stories of the twentieth century… Other birds are included for the very reason that they are extremely well known.

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Disneynature Chimpanzee

4 The Love Of Animals

“As part of our company’s ongoing efforts to protect the environment and empower audiences to participate in global conservation, Disneynature is proud to join with Jane Goodall Institute in its efforts to secure a future for chimpanzees in the Republic of Congo.”. The film opens in North America on April 20, 2012.

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

10,000 Birds

He collected in … the Belgian Congo, where he died of hemorrhagic fever at Bangala … According to his obituary in The Times (8 November 1890), he witnessed a cannibal banquet in the Upper Congo and was accused by Stanley of instigating it.”

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