10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2022

Anyway, I was much keener to see this kingfisher than the Emu (who I consider to be a bit of an underprivileged ostrich). ” If you want to hear about the equivalent among humans as phrased in a country song, please look up the lyrics to “A boy named Sue” Or watch/listen to Johnny Cash sing it here.

Australia 147

Australia Birds Parrots Ostriches 147

Reddit Animals

JANUARY 10, 2023

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Ostriches 40

Ostriches Humane Birds Animal 40

Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

forest buffalo goes into first ​ hyena: The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa. Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportionism it is primarily a hunter but may also scavenge, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste.

Africa 40

Africa Buffalo Ostriches Animal 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

Even people with no other interest in wildlife, who couldn’t tell a sparrow from an ostrich (or even a dolphin from a fish) love dolphins. It may be part of the reason I find them unnerving, it is only the smart creatures that can do actual bad things, instead of just wild animal things. Which has always mystified me slightly.

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Dolphins New Zealand Sharks Albatross 159

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) — that towering icon of modern anthropogenic extinctions — was a pigeon.

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Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 279