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Busch Gardens Welcomes New Baby Cheetah

4 The Love Of Animals

Busch Gardens’ animal care team has something new keeping them up at night – a four-week-old baby cheetah that requires regular feedings and 24-hour care. What could be cuter on Saint Patrick’s Day than this adorable baby cheetah from Busch Gardens?

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Aniweb Roundup 9/26/10

4 The Love Of Animals

I think that we have all experienced the healing power of our own pets at times, but I love that animals are being used to help people in hospitals and other situations too! The story of Thomas Sloane, a former NYC resident who died in 2005, leaving behind 22 pugs? Tina has put together a great list of 50 Novels for Animal Lovers.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The material on habitat tells us that sometimes looking for odonates in the tropics means thinking outside the North American box: Bromeliads and water-holding tree holes are breeding locations for certain species, including Blue-winged Helicopter. All in all, he’s written 75 scientific papers and seven books. CONCLUSION.

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Leucistic Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis

10,000 Birds

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. Leucism “is a condition characterized by reduced pigmentation in animals and humans.&#

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

.* NYC Monk Parakeet colonies can be found in Whitestone and Howard Beach, Queens; in Brooklyn, notably Greenwood Cemetery and Brooklyn College; and in the Bronx, notably Pelham Bay Park, where Mike saw them in 2005 , and City Island. The origin story of this invasive species in New York City is uncertain. After he died in 1987, the U.S.

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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

Brown Pelicans , and the northernmost Brown Booby breeding colony on this side of the Pacific. Ringer Gannets and Boobies (Sulidae) Black-and-white gannets breed on the cold, rocky coasts of the northern and southern oceans. They can soar for hours, or plunge and twist after another bird with spectacular power and flair.

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Another Reason to Go Vegetarian

Animal Ethics

The numbers are high and rising: From 1996 to 2005, MRSA-related hospitalizations increased nearly tenfold. Factory farms are concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) where animals are raised intensively and permanently confined in warehouses and sheds. are fed to farm animals. We've seen this with E.