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California’s Autumn Seas

10,000 Birds

It was the start of the shark season, which meant I saw my first Great White Shark attacks on Northern Elephant Seals , but it was also the best season for whales. They kept coming , one of which surfaced just twenty feet from our boat before sliding underneath the tiny Boston whaler. You could even smell its breath! A wave goodbye.

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Breast Cancer in Pets

4 The Love Of Animals

Most “at-risk” breeds: poodle, Brittany spaniel, English setter, pointer, fox terrier, cocker spaniel, Boston terrier. PurinaCare pet health insurance is also offered as a direct benefit to select employees and associations nationwide and its high-deductible policies have earned the AAHA Seal of Acceptance.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan. We must recognize the shortsighted nature of Governor Palin’s appeal not to list the polar bear as endangered.