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Birding With Alligators

10,000 Birds

Even with medical treatment, an alligator bite may still result in a fatal infection. Alligators are protective parents who will protect their young by attacking anything that comes too close or poses threats to baby alligators. throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but alligators killed 12 people from 2001 to 2007.

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

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Because urbanization changes the abundance and type of resources upon which birds depend, including nesting materials and plants involved in self-medication, our results are consistent with the view that urbanization imposes new challenges on birds that are dealt with using adaptations evolved elsewhere.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

It also offers an equally harsh negative judgment of the federal authorities whose mandate is to protect the integrity of the public’s food supply chain but who have chosen to interpret this responsibility so lightly as to let such claims stand while ignoring repeated offenses by the industry. 4): Your article about E.