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Xena

10,000 Birds

Normally she would be living somewhere in Europe or Asia, but she was born and raised in captivity in the United States. She lives with her handler, wildlife rehabilitator Lisa Acton, in upstate New York. But raising an ed bird means you can coochy-coochy them to your heart’s content. Xena is always calm and dignified.

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

10,000 Birds

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

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Bradt travel guide to Sri Lanka by Philip Briggs – review

10,000 Birds

Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds. What makes this guide different from many others?

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