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Enjoying the Orange Peril

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Perhaps it’s a basic human desire to dress things up.) Prize-winner: my shot of a Wryneck , digiscoped in a Polish orchard I seldom enter photographic competitions, but for many years the magazine British Birds held an annual photography competition. A pair of Sarus Cranes , digiscoped at Baratphur, India.

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples.

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

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The plight of elephants has become so dire that their greatest enemy—humans—is also their only hope, a topsy-turvy reality that moved a woman named Daphne Sheldrick to establish the nursery back in 1987. Shortly before David’s death, the couple finally arrived at a precise mixture of human baby formula and coconut.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Dogs are able to detect diseases such as cancer and diabetes and warn humans of impending heart attacks and strokes. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon.

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Review: Sasol eBirds of Southern Africa

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It can’t have escaped your knowledge that knowledge powered by electricity is all the rage now, being as you’re currently reading a website that once upon a time would have been a magazine (and provided us with actual jobs). How many copies of Sasol does one human need?

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