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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

10,000 Birds

Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). To put it in the language of science: “Males did not prefer conspecific females whenever they were given a choice of a larger heterospecific female” Bigger is always better?

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A Problem with Gulls

10,000 Birds

I’m not ready to expand my gull horizons… Clare and Grant-Broome Western Australia Mar 4th, 2011 at 8:06 pm We only get Silver Gulls in Broome, so if it is not that then it is a rarity! Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:52 pm I still have a hard enough time identifying North American gulls! There has been a Sabine’s Gull here in the past.

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Animal Testing Debate Continues in New South Wales

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This particular animal research controversy is occurring in New South Wales (Australia). Welfare groups are calling for an urgent public debate on animal testing amid claims millions of creatures are being killed or maimed every year in Australia in the name of science. From the online Sydney Morning Herald.