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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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And another one,” she added, “in a tampon box.” “A Big Brown Bat in a large glass terrarium,” said Marlene Ehresman in Iowa, “because the people wanted to make sure it wouldn’t escape.” Bat finders often want to insure there’s enough room between them and the bat. They showed me their wounds!

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Need help identifying an animal bite - please help!!

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I’ve looked for bats, and havent found any, we don’t have spiders big enough to make the marks they did, and I felt sick (worst runny nose I’ve ever had, headache, sore throat) both times for a day or two after. Edit: no rash/swelling anything like that, just two perfect puncture wounds one next to the other perfectly in line.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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They adorn their bodies with decorative scarification, a painful process of slicing into the skin and rubbing the wounds with charcoal. As the wound heals, this is replaced with larger and larger lip plates until they are able to stretch their lower lip over the back of their head and can wear lip plates of 5-inches or more in diameter!

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