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Big Cat Week 2012 Starts Sunday!

4 The Love Of Animals

Tune in Sunday to watch the first ever capture and release of an endangered snow leopard in Afghanistan! Snow Leopard of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, one of the most dangerous places on earth, is also home to a population of endangered and elusive snow leopards. But experts can’t protect them without knowing more about them.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Gaur Morning

10,000 Birds

The tropical dry deciduous jungle, or “jungle”, however you see it, covers almost 90% of 600 km2 (230 mi2) of this protected area. Other species I can recognize are colloquially called crocodile bark tree, due to the bark pattern, and paper bark. It is dominated by Burmese Teak , interspersed by thickets of Calcutta Bamboo.

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Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

The species name is cyanouroptera , meaning dark blue tailed and -winged. Originally, the gorget was a piece of armor that protected the throat or gorge. Of course, me writing about the meaning of “gorgeted” rather than providing bird-specific information indicates a lack of papers on the species.

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