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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Tika and her longtime mate, Kobuk, had raised eight litters of puppies together and were enjoying their retirement years in the home of my friend, Anne. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. the Spring 2011 issue of YES!

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

In 2011 their population was estimated at over 3,000 individuals, increasing steadily at 5-8% every year. In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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Wrap-Up of 2012 Big Year Birding

10,000 Birds

A new Australian Big Year Record was set by John Weigel, who did his big year to raise money for Tasmanian Devil conservation. Anthony Collerton also broke a big year record, with 361 species checked off his New York State checklist, breaking the state record of 352 set in 2011 by Richard Fried.

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