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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. But hedgehogs?

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What Foods you should Avoid Feeding your Dog?

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Dogs seem like pretty hardy animals for the most part, perfectly capable of eating all sorts of foods. Avocados contain persin, which in large amounts can be toxic to dogs and other domestic animals. And be careful of wild onions (also known as scallions, spring onions, or salad onions) which grow nearly everywhere in North America.

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Bird Sex Voyeurs

10,000 Birds

Think back to Victorian mores of sexuality prevalent among the upper classes in Great Britain and North America, which were so repressive and repressed that many Victorians felt that books by male and female authors should not be shelved next to each other in libraries.

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Polyandry and Polygynandry on the Tundra

10,000 Birds

the polygynandrous Smith’s Longspur by Shawn Billerman Birders in North America are lucky enough to encounter some amazing birds with some amazing breeding biology. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology , 43(3) 181-190 Briskie, JV (2009) Smith’s Longspur ( Calcarius pictus ), The Birds of North America Online (A.

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