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Care2 Vote For America's Best Animal Shelter

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Go vote for Best Friends my little winged monkeys! Or not, but vote for someone so they can win $10,000.

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Jaguar VS Bengal Tiger:who would win?

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Jaguars are big cats that live in South America,meanwhile the bengal tigers are living of course in bangladesh,also russia and kazahkstan.So who would win in a fight between these 2 fearsome cats? Jaguars are stronger and have a stronger bite force. verdict:Jaguar,75-90% mainly because of its great strength and immese bite force.Ok

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End of the Road Birding in Costa Rica at Luna Lodge

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This special place is also one of the last bastions of wild rainforest on the Pacific coast of Central America, hosts many endemic plants and animals, and as one may surmise, is pretty awesome for birds. Lots of monkeys there too. As befits an end of the road destination, Luna Lodge is true wilderness birding.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now.

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

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Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. As with many areas in Latin America that boast humid tropical forest, Costa Rica has three species of hawk-eagles. This curassow is great.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. Ifrasound waves are cool.

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The New Neotropical Companion: A Book Review by a Lover of the Neotropics

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The first edition, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics , was published in 1989. An enlarged version was published in 1997, with color photographs and more coverage of South America. The ‘little green book’ was now over 450 pages long!