10,000 Birds
JULY 2, 2020
The graveyard shift is on duty: several bats are chasing insects through the evening coolness. That is the trickiest moment for him: what if there’s a bear right next to the dirt track? Chamois is an agile goat-antelope with short hooked horns, found in mountainous areas of Europe from Spain to the Caucasus.
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2010
A huge spiral-horned goat got trapped in a toy rope and choked. For example, there was a higher-than expected number of bats passing away each year between 2004 and 2008, but the zoo didn’t do anything to decide why. The stingrays passed away right after an interactive display opened that let visitors put their hands on them.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
Heading south on a good surfaced road, we made slow progress through the herds of cattle, donkeys and goats that thronged the highway, until we finally reached the land of the Konso. Pods of Hippopotamus snorted at us, however the keen birders were more enthralled at finding the highly localized Northern Masked Weaver.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Luckily, I have just the mega tour I need, right here in the islands I call home. Nor is the sight of the Greater Short-tailed Bat , which can still fly but instead chooses to scurry across the forest floor in the manner of a shrew. With astonishing birds like that to bring the punters in, I can hardly fail, right? What a wrong!
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