10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
were the site which the nasty hemorrhagic fever Marburg jumped from Egyptian Fruit Bats to some unlucky tourists visiting the caves. Egyptian Fruit Bats. And then there’s the bats. And for all that I am playing with how dangerous these bats are, the fact is they probably aren’t. This is as close as we got.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2024
He complained they were eating the grass he wanted for his horses. Mole – gentleman in black velvet I’ve seen lots of bats, but bat identification is tricky, even when armed with a bat detector. A few are easy, such as the Egyptian Fruit Bat, the largest bat we have in Europe. I’ve seen them in Cyprus.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2021
Ok, maybe not the vampire bat…but some of the more “cuddly” species are actually quite easy to see. A vicero gets his horse ready to look for giant anteaters. That’s quite the list of charismatic and unique wildlife to add to your potential list of sightings. Giant anteaters are just one of the wildlife highlights of the Rupununi.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2022
The vampire bat is the vehicle for a discussion of what Higgins calls the human sense of pleasure and pain (but not, as to the latter, for the reason you might think). Other of Higgins’ examples are not so familiar but make perfect sense, pun intended, and make for fascinating reading.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
He introduces ideas and slowly builds on them, staring with the outbreak of Hendra in people and horses in Queensland before moving the story to his own experiences of great ape die-off when he was covering Michael Fay’s Megatransect in the Congo Basin. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My Horse people love to hang flypaper, I’ve had many Barn Swallows come in stuck to them,” says Jodi Swensen, of Cape Ann Wildlife in Massachusetts. “I
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2019
On the opposite bank, European pond terrapins are basking in the sun and, behind them, a herd of horses is grazing, preventing the scrub from taking over the grasslands. The dirt road winds along hillsides, next to vineyards and through the pine forest with a lot of bat boxes. The road follows the riverbank overgrown with reeds.
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