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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

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They may have no idea what they’re doing, but their compassion overrides their doubt. With luck, there has been enough negative feedback to stop this kind of insanity in its tracks, although it bears monitoring because there are no guarantees. And sometimes they even give us money, which elevates them to sainthood.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Cooperatively breeding species tend to have a strong alpha-pair + helpers structure with occasional beta males/females getting involved in the gene flow process. In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry. Thanks for visiting!

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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We jumped into our rented SUV Jeep Compass for a trip of 6 days. Occasionally, mountain flanks were exploited for manganese ore mining; I noted several manganese processing plants located around Hurunzhen. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me.

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