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You Gotta Fight When You Think it’s the Right Thing to Do

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Paving of the road across the Reva Pond started and was abandoned several months later: only the sidewalk was paved. There’s enough scientific data collected already ( eBird illustrated checklist ), it is not as if we really need more. And most of my local patches, the best ones – at least, are not accessible by car any more.

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There goes the neighborhood

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I have still seen each of these species out in the forest between two days and three weeks after they abandoned my yard. Fortunately, my own garden is currently being visited by a nice collection of resident species. Although, oddly enough, my garden is currently hosting a MacGillivray’s Warbler on its way north.

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Smart and Getting Smarter

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When it noticed a piece of kelp with an air bladder attached, it abandoned the stuff near shore and made the short swim out to collect its prize. I was flabbergasted and reminded that we don’t have exclusive rights to imagining, planning, executing, and then forgetting. More in a couple weeks.

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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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Egg collection for local consumption still continues at lower scale. Flamingos have been reported to abandon their nesting sites even when mining was initiated after the establishment of nesting colonies when the birds were expected to be engaged in a breeding attempt and were less likely to leave the colonies.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Anyway, it is winter and the snakes should be hibernating.

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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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Scores of abandoned dogs, cats and livestock from Utah animal shelters become subjects of laboratory research at the University of Utah each year. The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities.

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World Animal Day in Minsk

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They also put up a tent to collect donations, such as pet food, cages, collars and other pet supplies, for stray and abandoned animals kept at the shelters. Tags: belarus animal rights. Free consultations by veterinary physicians also were available. Byalyanava said. What is important is to make people talk about this problem.".

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