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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Thankfully the days of visiting Africa purely for slaughtering its wildlife have mostly come to a merciful end, and safari operators have adopted the Big Five term to market tours that offer sightings of the fortunate remanants of Africa’s once teeming great herds.

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

It turns out that people are not the only ones, who can adopt children – animals are good at this as well. One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012.

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On Stanley and Family Commitments

Animal Person

The neighborhood kids love her because she's beautiful ("Where's the tiger? We want to see the tiger!" Violet's a member of our family. So when we adopted a human baby we knew we'd have to teach that human to avoid Violet. We weren't planning to adopt another. And he's child friendly. Violet Rays is not a kid dog.

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