10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While tracking brown bears in Greece some time ago, B. stayed to rrroar to the locals, also visit their homesteads, to see which races of domestic animals they breed, etc. Pat asked me where was I at the moment and I said “We’re just passing the sign for (I think) Salida”, when laughing in the van stopped me: that was a sign for exit.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

I was driving along the legendary eastern levee of the Kerkini Lake in northern Greece ( Google Map ) and, listening to the first Golden Oriole flute, was slowly getting closer to a wooded Mt. Out of some 4000 buffaloes still being kept in Greece, about 3000 are at this lake. I’m in Greece, after all. mi) above the lake.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

And here I am on vacation in Greece, turning off the alarm at 5.30 Already having had way too close encounters with domestic animals, that habit is something I particularly dislike – especially before the first morning coffee! Trips Greece partridges' I don’t like to wake up if it’s still dark outside – I hate it!

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

One simply has to love Greece. Here it comes again, it is a young animal, then another, a fight, just a few metres from me, one ends up on its back in submission, the other one, happy to dominate, shows no further aggression and they go their separate ways. I told you – one simply has to love Greece.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 25, 2010

In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on April 25, 2010. A foul-smelling wound might spell an infection. Liver disease? Fishy-smelling breath.

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Rats Humane Greece Rodents 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. The animal slowly walked away from us, stopping every now and then to check on our behaviour. Every now and then, I need to cut the world off and clear my mind.

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Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 185

Animal Ethics

JUNE 18, 2014

To the Editor: Re “ Worry Under the Big Top as Mexico City Moves to Ban Circus Animals ” (news article, June 15): Mexico City joins the growing list of cities that have banned the exploitation of animals in circuses. Why is the United States lagging so far behind?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!);

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Here go those moments of curiosity, in no particular order: Europe: And so, I was driving from Greece to Serbia… in central FYRO Macedonia, two birds were circling not far from the motorway… black and white… perhaps White Storks on migration? Well, one reason might be – this animal is not only endangered, but even rarer than the Tiger!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Following this early example, weathervanes in classical antiquity often assumed the form of animals and mythological beings – often deifications of the four compass winds – traditions that carried on in Europe long past the fall of Rome. Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome.

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Reddit Animals

MARCH 1, 2023

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