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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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African Skimmers at the Kazinga Channel

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At any rate there are three species, the Black Skimmer (which isn’t that much blacker than the others) which is found in the Americas, the Indian Skimmer, which is the most vulnerable member of the family, and the African Skimmer, which is widespread but nowhere common in Africa. Some African Skimmers pass by some African Buffalo.

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Where the buffalo roam: world's longest wildlife bridge could cross the Mississippi -- "Conservationist aims to replace old bridge with bison preserve, benefiting environment and spotlighting Indigenous history" [United States of America]

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Aslin Beer Company/Two Roads Brewing Company: Under the Wire

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In North America, the United States Fish & Wildlife Service estimates that up to 57 million birds perish every year in collisions with electrical utility lines. Quite aside of aesthetic concerns, this new infrastructure could be dangerous as well – even deadly.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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He interpreted the bones, also at Klasies but other sites in South Africa as well, to indicate that human ancestors hunted only Eland until they became fully modern very recently, then they started hunting the much more dangerous and harder to hunt Buffalo. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.

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Birding Botswana’s Borders

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Well-travelled birders will recognise Cattle Egrets following the steps of hippo or African Buffalo , and Black-crowned Night Herons , but more African species occur in the form of the massive Goliath Heron , the smaller Squacco Heron , and the highly distinctive Black Egret , famous for creating a canopy with its wings to hunt small fish.

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Review: Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change

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The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. Few issues of our day are as huge, in scope or in implication, as climate change.