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Spotlight: Maureen Eiger – To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

10,000 Birds

A parent bird’s instinct to feed and protect their young is very strong, and they will not willingly abandon their babies. Mites will eventually kill the bird. Call and transport the bird to a bird rehabber ASAP. Unfortunately a bird’s nest location is not always perfect. Baby bird with lots of mites.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

Basically, hornbills get paid by evolution to eat fruit, digest the fleshy parts, and regurgitate or defecate the rest – a means of seed transportation that is apparently quite attractive to many plants despite the yuck factor involved. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak.

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Kermie

Animal Person

Though she hadn’t managed to kill anyone yet, I wasn’t about to roll the dice on whether she really did have some kind of predator instinct. He started frolicking with abandon in the dried green moss at the base of Bob, our resident Spathophylum. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. There is a God, I thought.