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I Remember Elephants

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In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. How much time did you need to read this blog? Another ellie is being killed as you read this line. Perhaps 15 minutes?

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. millions years ago.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. And, as we find out in a blogged coda to the episode , they can’t even take care of their eggs. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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Red-billed Blue Magpies are occasionally eaten by snub-nosed monkeys. The gory details are outlined in a paper describing that the monkeys eat the head of the bird first but reject the wings. In fact, websites such as this one seem to offer package tours just to kill woodcocks.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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A paper describes how a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (which looks a bit like somebody had kicked Donald Trump in the nose, which in itself may probably not be such a bad idea) ate three Chinese Babax chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park.

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