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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure. This example is important because it appears that the protector species, not just the protected species, gains a benefit, the latter having been documented many times before. Caption for the graphic above: Fig 3.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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He also served with the 13th Light Dragoons, fighting with them at Waterloo (though he can only have been about 18 at that point – I guess child protection laws were somewhat lax at that time). In the section on other animals which sometimes ends my posts, the mammal comparing favorably with Donald Trump today is some kind of squirrel.

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Cute of the Day: the bilby!

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Outside of Australia, the bilby is a little-known animal that occasionally draws comparisons to Star Wars’ Yoda character. originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on November 6, 2009. Tags: cute animal photos cute animals cute of the day bilby cute animal photo endangered. What a cute creature!

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National Dog Bite Prevention Week

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Here are the tips and stats that they sent us: Nearly 2,900 letter carriers were bitten by dogs last year, yet that pales in comparison to the 4.7 While letter carriers are discouraged from petting animals, people who choose to pet dogs should always let a dog see and sniff them before petting the animal. Don’t run past a dog.

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An Unfortunate Pewee

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PCBs have been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency since the 1970s, but due to their chemical makeup, can persist in the environment for many years. Here is a normal-billed Eastern Wood-Pewee for comparison. The bird looks deceptively happy from this angle. And yes, it has a vest, and no it is not an Olive-sided Flycatcher.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

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Hal Herzog’s “ Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat ” (Harper 2011), though fascinating, is ultimately depressing for vegans and animal rights activists. Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished. I would be they are in less environmentally backwards states (and I say that with some authority having done EIS work in several states … Minnesota is the wild west when it comes to environmental protection).

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