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A couple of facts :D

Reddit Animals

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Protecting Your Pets from Pests and Disease

4 The Love Of Animals

Heartworms are easily controlled by any one of a number of medications designed to kill the worms or repel mosquitoes. This illness is particularly dangerous since it can infect both humans and horses, causing damage to the central nervous system. This illness is another strain of encephalitis that affects horses alone.

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Birding beyond Brisbane

10,000 Birds

As we travelled around the hinterland we discovered that the Cattle Egret in that area of Queensland were with the cattle! Sometimes they were with horses, but that’s OK! Cattle Egret and cattle. Australian Bustard and cattle. Shorebird roost at Toorbul. Now that is just how it should be!

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Mustangs Stir a Debate on Thinning the Herd ” (front page, July 20): The Bureau of Land Management is charged with protecting wild horses and burros on the Western rangelands. Davis, an emeritus professor of animal science at Oregon State University, says the horses “damage” the environment.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

September 7, 2006, a bill banning the slaughter of horses for human consumption( H.R. According to the HPMAJ column, "Loos told cattle producers the livestock industry must show the public that there are moral and ethical justifications for taking the life of an animal to feed a person. 503 ) was approved in the U.S.

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