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Play the silly word game my spouse and I came up with: "The Lazy Naturalist"

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"The Lazy Naturalist" is a game about identifying animals whose common names reference other animals. I call it "The Lazy Naturalist" because it's as if whoever named the animal couldn't be bothered to come up with a descriptive or original name, so instead, they just referenced some other animal.

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African Wild Dogs Facts, Habitat, Diet, Size, Photos And Videos

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No two dogs have identical markings on their coat, much like each zebra has a distinct stripe pattern and each person has a fingerprint. The top 10 facts about African wild dogs , also called the African painted dogs and the African hunting dogs is a wild canine that is a native species to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Big Cat Week, day 4

4 The Love Of Animals

Tonight, Lions on the Edge! Now, the worst drought in decades is pushing all the animals on a march to find water. The animals follow the dry riverbed upstream for water, while circling prides of lions position themselves close by, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Premieres Thursday, December 9, at 9PM ET/PT.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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Mosethla Bush Camp guide awaits us by the open Land Rover and with a loaded rifle in front of the steering wheel, we continue into the bush (oddly, while observing lions and tigers in India, not a single rifle was in sight). The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 2 of 13

Animal Ethics

Who exactly is not supposed to eat animals or products of animals? This problem is especially acute with respect to carnivorous animals. What animals is it morally wrong to eat? If animals could be created by genetic engineering, could they be created so that there were no moral objections to eating them?

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Tanzania – Africa at its best

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Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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