10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Alternative transportation options would have included traveling on a truck like this one. Apparently, the signs on this car indicate that the person in the car has just returned from Mekka – which allows the local kids to harass the passenger for sweets. Then, we arrived back at the outskirts of Kabul.

Afghanistan 178

Afghanistan Birds Goats Transported 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

Incidents include a hippo who died in transport from Denver and a Turkmenian markhor, a species of wild goat, hung itself at the zoo after becoming trapped by a rope. The fatality is one in a string of animal deaths in recent years. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2019

But boxed wines do have certain advantages over bottled: the packaging is cheaper, lighter, easier to transport, and – because the spout dispenses with little intake of air – the wine inside is only very slow exposed to outside oxygen and therefore stays fresh much longer than an uncorked bottled wine. A Spanish bota de vino.

Goats 119

Goats Seals 2003 South America 119

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Of course, when speaking of the devil, it is hard for me not to mention the song “The best ever death metal band from Denton” by The Mountain Goats. Morcombe (Birds of Australia) is also known as ‘Devil-bird’ because it is always found in the darkest parts of the rainforest.

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 217