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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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The others follow, some dozen animals in all. They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. From 2020 to 2022, that figure was lower, about 500 animals per year, but is it because of better safety measures or fewer and consequently harder to locate quarries? Driving slowly behind them… The guide knows his animals.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. It was when Hélène says to Ned, “And when the stakes were the highest, you raised an eagle on your glove.”.

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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.” There are many variations on this traditional farmer’s adage about sowing, which instructs the planter to scatter four seeds for every plant one hopes to harvest, so as to account for inevitable losses to birds and other hungry animals scouring the fields. Birds and Booze News.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

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