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Do badgers and bears co-exist?

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I have an English class story I have to write and I wanted to know if it'd be accurate that these animals exist like that cause my niece and nephew are Badger and Bear. I wanted to know if they at least exist in the same areas, tolerate each other, and each go out into human society to grab stuff.

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Birding Dulan County, Qinghai

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Being a mammal myself, I am understandably much less fond of this animal class than I am of birds. If you want to learn more about being miserable and do not know Misery Bear, please watch this video. The Bearded Vulture looks surprisingly like the Night King in “Game of Thrones” Probably not a coincidence.

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Notable Trees

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I always knew this on some level but my appreciation was renewed and focused when I took a tree identification class in Prospect Park this past weekend. They mean sweet-flowered linden, not the tree that bears the citrus fruit. If you get the opportunity, I recommend that every birder take a class or two on their local trees.

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The Best Birding Locations in the United States (according to ChatGPT)

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I am a westerner, so perhaps it is a glorious hotspot, but I’ve never heard Cape Ann, Massachusetts referred to as a world-class birding location. Initially, Point Pelee National Park appears to be in Ontario, Canada (not Ohio), which makes it wrong, as well as excluded by the query itself.

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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. If you or your children face elephant extinction during your lifetime, do not accuse solely the rise of the middle classes in the Far East, fueling a new demand for ivory.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. The exploiter/developer pays.

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Birder, Defined

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The traditional definition (Stamper tells us that lexicographers call this a “sense”) of the noun “bird” (“any of a class (Aves) of warm-blooded vertebrates distinguished by having the body more or less completely covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings”), comes first.

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