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Thought experiment

Reddit Animals

If you put some animals (both wild and domestic) on an island and left them there to roam free and we come back after a few years who would survive. Would suprisngly rodents and small animals. Horses have a good chance. The main strategy for horses is organisation. Horses live in groups.

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How a Farrier can treat a horse with club foot

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A Farrier is a professional with a very unique set of skills, they are able to care for and treat ailments found in hoofed animals including horses, ponies and some other animals. This act was created to ensure proper care is provided to horses by eliminating unskilled people from attempting to shoe them.

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NYT Equine Thought Experiment

Animal Person

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). The Botai did not just herd horses for meat.

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

It’s a slim volume, a republication, mostly, of a chapter from her fine 2010 book Birdology , with some added material including an introduction, in which she describes how she has, a decade after her first experience with falconry (as described in the main part of the book), “come back for more.”

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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

10,000 Birds

If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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Birding Iceland on the Fly

10,000 Birds

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. I can hardly begin to describe the surreal experience that unfolded before me. It is truly a magical place, an experience like none other.

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Quinta do Casal Branco: Lobo e Falcão Reserva (2016)

10,000 Birds

It’s entirely possible that these birds were employed in vineyard pest control as well; as several modern wineries have rediscovered, falconry is an excellent means by which to deter other animals looking to devour their precious grapes. A more recent example of the long and beneficial relationship between falconry and winemaking.

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