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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. I say they were butchered, face-off. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

They could also give bones to a lion (lions are easy to come by), and they could simulate an early human ancestor butchering an animal with stone tools (we Africanists normally do this at parties). This allowed the Blumenschine crew to carry out experiments that involved every possible series of events, using animals of different sizes.

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