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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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If you’ve had an encounter with a wild animal – a bird stunned by hitting a window, a fox hit by a car, or a family of raccoons unexpectedly found residing in your attic – you know how hard it can be to find help. Animal Help Now is the first nationwide response system for wildlife emergencies.

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Why are most animals cool with other animals, but freak out with humans?

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Was walking today and saw a turtle. The turtle didn't speed up or go the opposite direction, it just kept slowly crawling, getting right up close to the bird, who didn't even seem to pay it any mind as it passed. Different species seem to be cool with eachother, but afraid of humans? Why is that?

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So, what are the biggest determinant factors go into the maximum lifespan of a species under ideal living conditions?

Reddit Animals

Turtles can live for extremely long amounts of time. So what variables make the largest impact on the maximum lifespan of a species? So people can live for like a hundred years or even longer if they live a healthy life and die of natural causes. A cat can live for nearly twenty years, one lived for nearly forty.

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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Twenty years ago, flocks consisting of a thousand European Turtle Doves were a common sight in Serbia in spring. Turtle Doves have been declining in Europe since the 1970s, and in this century alone, the continent has lost 40% of its population of the species. Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced to a few hundred birds.

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Blinded Turtle Finds New Home in Aquarium

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I'm not posting this because of the rescue (which is a good thing), but because of HOW this turtle was blinded. The aquarium said it hoped Homer would help raise awareness about the plight of his species. Dangers include fishermen deliberately blinding the animals to protect fishing equipment. From the BBC.

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How much time do you devote to birding?

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Late April / early May is the best birding season in the south of Europe and wherever you go, you will have 50% to 100% more species than in any other season. Recently, I did a bit of embankment birding and, while checking floating logs for ducks, I counted European pond turtles (strange things birders do?)

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Can anybody identify this turtles/tortoise species

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submitted by /u/FloatBread [link] [comments].