10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2024

It has all Big Five animals and a whole lot of other grumpy mammals. Looking left I saw a big, male buffalo behind the bush. So, apart from large vicious mammals and venomous snakes, what else can possibly go wrong while birding? For number three we need to travel to Mahango Park in Namibia. Just a few meters away from me.

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Mozambique Birds Ghana Namibia 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. Taxidermy is a bizarre art.

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Elephants Mammals Buffalo Gorillas 158

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. Donna Fernandes, president of the Buffalo Zoo, witnessed a wake for a female gorilla, Babs, who had died of cancer at Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100