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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

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Other birds with webbed feet, including ducks and geese, have only three webbed toes; the hallux (which in birds is usually the “hind toe&# and in humans, the “big toe&# ) is free. For all of recorded history, humans have classified other living things by their physical characteristics.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. The island was home to an important population of XantusMurrelet , but the population was suffering as a result of introduced rats.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Scripps’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus scrippsi. Craveri’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus craveri. 20 May 2016. 13 Aug 2016.

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Combined Beats’ List – August

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Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Scripps’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus scrippsi. Craveri’s Murrelet – Synthliboramphus craveri. 20 May 2016. 13 Aug 2016.

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