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Untamed Americas

4 The Love Of Animals

Then travel to the Rockies, for a ringside seat as male bighorn sheep go head-to-head in a bloody battle for breeding rights. Then go to the Atacama Desert where Humboldt penguins raise families in the driest place on earth. Witness male gentoo penguins perform mating jigs to attract females. Untamed Americas: Deserts.

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Martin Mania

10,000 Birds

Alberto Lobato, an ornithologist from the eastern side of Mexico, would be in Morelia, and could we go birding? ” (Actually, Chivizcoyo is a common name for Mexico’s legendary Bearded Wood-Partridge.) Mexico boasts ten Swift species.) Quite a few of them are biologists. Now, Alberto is something of a celebrity.

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