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Pelican Release with International Bird Rescue

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First, you get to tour one of their California centers , you get a special opportunity to see a Pelican getting its final medical exam and numbered leg band, plus you get the honor of releasing one, or in my case, two of their rehabilitated pelicans! So as Arnold would say, “Do it!

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Sounds like she watched a harsh video. Deka, director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after watching a video allegedly exposing animal cruelty at the New Delhi centre. "It I don't always know how I personally feel about Pamela Anderson, but I can't argue with her (non-acting) work.

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March by Goethe

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Faustus’ opening monologue by heart as it is such an impressive chain of thoughts for anyone immersed in studying natural sciences. Despite being mainly interested in botany, about which he published some of the most influencial scientific essays of his time, he was also very well acquainted with the animal kingdom. Wicked, right?

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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of Army Medical Department 1815-1851. If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer. While serpent means large snake, the Crested Serpent-eagle also eats frogs, as this video shows. Glad I did not have to watch these.

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A Problem with Gulls

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Mayr technically studied medical sciences, but he was a true and fanatic/fantastic birder and this was the reason for him choosing Greifswald over any other university – he wanted to go birding there. SIGH Well, I guess I should apologize for hijacking your post. Wicked, right?

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Blue-Collar Dogs on Nat Geo WILD

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The medical field has expanded use of dogs from assisting the hard of hearing and the physically challenged to predicting blood sugar crashes, detecting oncoming seizures and sniffing out disease. In the video: “Guide Dog Puppies” – Meet some of the cutest guide dogs you’ll ever meet! Blue-Collar Dogs: Border Hounds.

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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Fortunately, in science, there is often a way to turn a defeat into a victory – in this case via the author just coming up with a new hypothesis, “if black eagles use the frequency or intensity of mobbing as a clue to locate nests, a lack of seasonal difference in mobbing behavior by drongos may be an evolutionary adaptive strategy.”

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