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Tex For Mayor 2014

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The donations go to a great cause, providing Emergency Medical Care and Attention to seriously ill or injured animals who could not otherwise become adoptable. The post Tex For Mayor 2014 appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals. You can keep up with campaign updates on Facebook and Twitter. dogs just for fun people helping animals'

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6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest

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American Pet Products Association (APPA) President and CEO, Bob Vetere announced today that the organization’s 6th Annual Pets Add Life Children’s Poetry Contest deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, February 28 , 2014 at 5:00 p.m. cats dogs events pet stories'

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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And when writing a field guide, it is accepted practice to adopt one of the above and to stick to it, with any questions or disagreements safely ensconced in the text, not in an actual change of species. written by Richard Garrigues and illustrated by Robert Dean (Comstock, 2014) and Birds of Belize , written by H. © 2003 text H.

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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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And with no natural predators or resistant trees in their adopted territory, things have been looking pretty grim. Even the cursed “polar vortex” which produced bone-chilling temperatures throughout large chunks of the United States in early 2014 doesn’t seem to have been long or cold enough to cause EAB die-off. Enter the woodpecker.

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New Big Day Record Broken for Costa Rica!

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Since then, teams from Cornell and South Africa have taken a shot at the title, but although they have identified anywhere from 320 to 325 species (the South African record ), the world record stood until October of 2014 when a team from LSU made a concerted effort and indeed broke it with 354 species in one calendar day.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Rather than adopt stringent United States animal care standards, which Ringling Bros. June 19, 2014 The writer is vice president, corporate communications, for Feld Entertainment, parent company of Ringling Bros. Despite the claims made in the letter, circuses like Ringling Bros. performance, and their No. STEPHEN PAYNE Vienna, Va.,

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I Remember Elephants

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The Great Elephant Census found that populations of Savanna Elephants Loxodonta africana have fallen by 30% between 2007 and 2014 (around 144,000 animals poached or population shrunk at a rate of 8% a year, a level higher than their reproduction rate; source https://peerj.com/articles/2354.pdf

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