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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run. England’s Muntjac are all descended from a small number of animals released by the 11th Duke of Bedford in his park at Woburn, in Bedfordshire, in the early years of the 20th century. Now an endangered animal in Britain.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I remember the guide on my first Kenyan birding safari remarking that “birding groups always see far more mammals than those who come just to see animals. At the time (1968) sightings of lynx in the Doñana were extremely rare as the animals were so shy: I was extremely fortunate to have this encounter. (I

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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The thing on the Bat's head is called a Bat Fly! They are a type of fly that has adapted to the lifestyle of a louse. They swim through the Bat host's fur and suck blood. Some have wings, some don't and they can be found worldwide riding their batty steeds around. They're not usually facehuggers.

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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It is much stranger and illustrative of the ways of evolution to point out that whales are a form of “hoofed animal&# (unlikely but true). Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world. But overall, it’s not common if you exclude bird and bats, the two main flying vertebrate groups.

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