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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

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From the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka. Tags: animal research sri lanka. The booklet has been sponsored by the World Health Organization.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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What extraordinary birds penguins are: physically, they remind us of ourselves, so we think we understand their behaviors, but, as the authors say, “their private life is as complex and mysterious as that of any wild animal.” Dragan]: Europe’s Birds: An Identification Guide , by Hume, Still, Swash, and Harrop is a photographic guide.

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International birding tourism after the Covid-19 – what will change?

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I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. We are stuck. In a world we made. In other destinations, you may prefer a car with a driver (e.g.

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Where Tulips Come From (It Ain’t Holland)

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Did some kind of animal eat the tulips and spread them in its droppings? When he returned to Portugal in disgrace after usurping his position from the rightful governor, Sampayo supposedly took tulip bulbs with him from Sri Lanka. Even the term “tulip” comes from an Ottoman Turkish word.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia (Paperback) Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Pages 173 Dimensions 14 × 22.8 I clearly needed a mammal book. cm Weight 0.4

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Wild Sri Lanka

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As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the only country in the world where almost all books on wildlife were authored by a single person. Even the claim that Sri Lanka is the world’s best safari destination outside of Africa comes from him.

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