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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of February 2021)

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Common Goldeneye lives up to its name around here, but this weekend found its far less-common cousin, Barrow’s Goldeneye , hanging out with Redheads and scaup at Charlotte Pier. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Chimpanzees Mourn Their Dead?

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Heck, even my cats visibly missed old Charlotte who died last August. It makes it even harder to subject chimps to experiments if you keep discovering these human similarities. I believe that great apes do have that capacity. I've read of the mountain gorillas in Virunga grieving over the loss of a silverback.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? A lost pit bull mutt broke up an attempted mugging of a woman leaving a playground with her son in Port Charlotte, Florida. by Marc Bekoff. Dogs are also known for helping those in need.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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The population is approximately 105,000 and the capital is Charlotte Amalie on St. There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area. Thomas, and a number of smaller islands. The islands were purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1916.

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Escape to the Sounds

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This scraggly collection of islands and deep long bays forms the tip of South Island closest to to North Island, but till this point my only experience of the area had been the long passage down Queen Charlotte Sound to reach the ferry terminal of Picton. Lochmara Bay with Queen Charlotte Sound in the background.