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Birding the Drakensberg, South Africa

10,000 Birds

Still, a small number compared to the estimated 26 billion chickens in the world. So, while each person in the world can theoretically have about 3 chickens, about 5 people have to share one Red-billed Quelea. One being that the name is based on the bird’s soft feathers with a texture similar to a mouse’s fur.

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7 Pet Friendly Fall Activities

4 The Love Of Animals

While we may not be too excited to see the mercury drop, we’ve also never had to wear a fur coat through the summer. Now that the outdoors is fur friendly, it’s time to get out there and let the fur fly! But with that full time fur coat in mind, the cool autumn air is perfect for pounding the pavement with your pal.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

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Latimer's ignorance also comes across in his discussion of anti-fur campaigns, so it's easy to miss this potentially good point (about some animal activists): But did you ever notice that we don't hear very much from them if anything about shoe leather? He clearly hasn't heard of the low-hanging fruit concept.