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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages. But the seal industry doesn't care. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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On the threshold of flight

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” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Indeed, we call the very rare non-fliers “flightless.”

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’ve observed nesting owls, fledgling owlets, owls eating small rodents, owls coughing up their pellets, a Great Horned Owl silently flying over me, a Great Gray Owl sitting regally still on a post as a boy walks up to him, a pair of Barking Owls duetting in early evening hours outside my northern Australian hut as I brushed my teeth.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. And for rodents and reptiles as well. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion?