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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

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On December 9th, a tanker slammed into another vessel inside the Chandpai dolphin sanctuary in the Sundarbans in Bangladesh. They are working to clean up oil without protection and the children are falling sick. They are doing it bare-handed without any protective gear.’ Without any protective gear, this man collects heated oil.