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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.

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Birding Pulau Ubin-Singapore

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There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. It is illegal to feed wild animals, take animals, birds and insects and it is also illegal to release animals in Singapore. Shorebirds on Pulau Sekudu. Grey-headed Fish Eagle.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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On her own, two months ago, she took down a big, old and experienced Indian Boar , who already had some old tiger claw scars. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' They are 20 months old, as big as their mother, but not as heavy. The fourth one is missing – she is the adventurer among them. The other two are motionless.

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