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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest.

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24 Hours (or so) in Kuala Lumpur

10,000 Birds

But it wasn’t until I saw the next bird did I feel I was back in the Old World (or any world that wasn’t Australia or New Zealand) for the first time in four years, a trio of Common Flamebacks.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. Jethro continued to make direct eye contact with me as if he were saying, “Do something.&#

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