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Organizations Putting Animals First

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Understanding that threats to animals can range from illegal trafficking to utter exploitation, these leaders strive to promote the safety and protection sanctuaries offer our fury, feathered, four-legged friends. PAC 911: Phoenix Animal Care Coalition. From rescue missions to financial support, PAC911 aids animals in any way they can.

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The Animal Legal Defense Fund Public Registries

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Such registries would help protect animals, pet guardians and communities by preventing repeat offenses from anyone with an established history of abusing animals. Through its campaign, www.ExposeAnimalAbusers.org , the animal protection organization is promoting model legislation that state legislatures could enact.

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What To Do If You Find a Pit Bull

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Aside from the breed’s abuses, one finds that adopting out this breed is highly difficult. It may feel threatened, and animals that feel threatened instinctually protect themselves. If the dog seems agitated, on edge in a stiff-like stance, or very hyper, it may be best to avoid the dog. Begin Searching For an Owner.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Larks, for example.

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Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Book Review

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Compare, for example, the species account illustration of the Cuban Trogon with the photo that opens up the introductory chapter. Each account gives population estimate, population trend, estimated area, endemism level, reasons why the species is threatened, and conservation measures adopted and proposed.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group. millions years ago. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley. Old Wold Vultures.

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The Famous Grouse: Smoky Black Blended Scotch Whisky

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But on Burns Night, luckily for the grouse, it’s always the poor, timid sheep that ends up on the supper table, in the form of that most infamous example of Scottish cookery – the haggis. After all, it’s the famous grouse, leaving no room in this lek for any pretenders to the throne.

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