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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills.

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Appeal Denied for Six Activists Convicted Under AEPA

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Six members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty were convicted at a 2006 trial in New Jersey of conspiracy to violate the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act. Huntingdon used mostly mice and rats , but also some dogs, monkeys, fish and guinea pigs , in its research in New Jersey. It was a 2-1 decision by the US Court of Appeals.

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Physicians Committee Accuses University of Washington of Cruelty to Ferrets

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The UW has been cited in the past for deficiencies in animal research, including allowing a monkey to starve in 2009. Inspectors found serious deficiencies in animal-care facilities in 2006 and put the UW on probation.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs. A long bearded D’Brazza’s Monkey was gorging on figs along the Mago River. We spotted a young Leopard and his mother in Mago National Park. Mursi woman.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

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Note: This is an account, originally published in June 2006, of my quest to remove a jinx bird from my bird-watching soul. For stones I used pieces of logs—something my friends in the tropics call a monkey bridge. My monkey bridge back across the boggy creek. Here is my story about a quest for the Connecticut Warbler.–Bill

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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In June 2006, Jane and I visited a chimpanzee sanctuary near Girona, Spain. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. After sensing that no other monkeys saw him tumble, he marched off, back high, head and tail up, as if nothing had happened.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. This is partly because birds are by and large in the business of being seen; This is part of their social system and they tend to be diurnal, plus of course they fly. Myers, P.,

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