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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. For only $450,000, we could buy almost all of the habitat neded to protect Ecuador's remaining frogs. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2023

10,000 Birds

I guess you cannot be too choosy while traveling, as I have learned when on trips in Ecuador and other places. While studies report that Fairy Pittas mainly feed on earthworms, at Nanhui they also seem to eat these weird-looking green caterpillars (if that is what these things are) that are the main food of cuckoos.

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