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Petrel Paradise

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Petrel Paradise Petrel Paradise By Duncan • March 2, 2011 • 4 comments Tweet Share I’ve mentioned before that New Zealand is a great place for enjoying petrels. That is all. Wicked, right?

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I Remember Elephants

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A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. One may say so. I say they were butchered, face-off.

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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was. Wicked, right?

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

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Press, 2011). One of Kricher’s goals with this edition, he says, was to write a book that was “less academic in tone,” something he felt he could do now with the publication of his college-level textbook Tropical Ecology (Princeton Univ.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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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. the Spring 2011 issue of YES! He stood up and quickly looked around.

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Tiritiri Matangi Island

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Hes previously poked albatrosses with sticks in Hawaii, provided target practice for gulls in California, chased monkeys up and down hills Uganda, wrestled sharks in the Bahamas and played God with grasshopper genetics in Namibia. 4 Responses to “Tiritiri Matangi Island&# Mike Mar 9th, 2011 at 8:49 am Terrific as always, Duncan.

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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. Accessed July 12, 2011 at [link] a. This is also because mammals are large. A little bit of bird biomass goes a long way. Sources Laden, Greg. Oxford University Press.

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