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Baihualing – The Sequel

10,000 Birds

Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong).

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sometimes a chimpanzee, usually an adult male, will dance at a waterfall with total abandon. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. And outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, a dog rescued an abandoned baby by placing him safely among her own newborn puppies.

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