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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

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KWWC also has a thriving feral chicken sideline. It turns out that back when cigar manufacturing was big in the Keys, Cuban laborers arrived with their chickens. Eventually the business and the workers moved to Tampa, leaving a sizable chicken population behind. Want to help this great place?

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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The second thing they did was to interfere with the genetic pathways in some chickens, which produced a chicken with beaky bits that were more like snouty bits found in, for example, a Alligator. The chickens were done in before hatching. The chickens were done in before hatching. Here’s the thing.

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Iguanas Love Roti!

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In Trinidad and Tobago, various wrapped “roti” are served, including chicken, conch, beef, and vegetable. Let me tell you, a wrap of curried chicken and potatoes was both delicious and filling. Reptiles Lizards Trinidad and Tobago' Shrimp and goat are also available.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. I had a fledgling hummingbird they fed chicken noodle soup because it was sick,” wrote Tracy Anderson. “A Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. The baffling, mind-boggling public.

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The Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

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Unfortunately for the Green Iguana , which are known to some who eat them as “bamboo chickens” they are, in addition to apparently being rather tasty, one of the most popular reptile pets in the United States though they are difficult to keep and most die in their first year in captivity.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. What I don’t understand is why animal rights organizations almost completely ignore wildlife. There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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Birding the Kruger Park (1): Skukuza area

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African Spoonbills seem unfazed by large reptiles. The Red-billed Quelea – also a weaver species – is apparently the most numerous undomesticated bird on earth, something humans are not happy with (though we are fine with domesticated chickens being even more common). Most likely, the devil, not god created this species.

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