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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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A paper describes how a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (which looks a bit like somebody had kicked Donald Trump in the nose, which in itself may probably not be such a bad idea) ate three Chinese Babax chicks from a nest in Shennongjia National Park. ” Congratulations.

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Animal Research Grants a Waste of Taxpayer Money

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Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Recent published studies document that an old boys network in the federal grant award process keeps “aging cash cows” afloat while leaving younger, innovative investigators struggling.

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All my patches

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, and at the same time not grumpy enough to make them draw their guns (yep – it’s a true story, but do not trust the first impression: they were rough on the outside and soft on the inside, e.g. being fiercely protective of stray dogs and cats – that particular guy kept about five dogs and 15 cats, and they all lived together peacefully).

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My Loo List

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In Chile I got the best view of an Andean Condor of the entire trip while having a cheeky poo under a monkey puzzle pine on the side of a volcano. I was convinced that this was to be the end- I pictured the headline: crapping birder eaten by big cat. In the Spanish Pyrenees I saw my first Alpine Chough while making yellow snow.

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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows

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For example, if we hear distant thunder, we know that it was caused by a storm, or by lightning, or by the more precisely defined physical processes of ionized air (depending on how much we know about meteorology). A Hidden Causal Agent (HCA) is an entity that causes something to happen, where you can’t see the agent but you know what it is.

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