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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So pigs are camels, as you probably already suspected.) Nor do camels.

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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing' Gujarat, December 2010. The previous day was devoted to exploration of the Little Rann of Kutch.

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The Nemesis Cat Defeated!

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For there is no species that I had more comprehensively failed to see than the Leopard. Leopards were problem species for me. The cats are, almost to a species, elusive. No surprise that until this year they were two of the five species of cat I had seen. What an animal! Leopard camels in Madikwe.

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Into an Uncertain Future

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The crucial factor limiting the maximum baggage is the transport of the entire German population to their new home in the central Saharan desert regions of southern Algeria, Mali and Niger by camel. Of course we are not officially allowed to take living animals with us (allegedly, Leberwurst is fine).

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Life in a high desert oasis

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When you conjure up thoughts of the desert oasis, you probably envision the towering white sand dunes of cinematic fame, with camels, brightly colored tents and turbaned nomads. The biosphere is known for its many substrate of ecological plant and animal life, depending on the elevation. angustifrons.