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Air Canada Criticized for Transporting Research Monkeys

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The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Air Canada is one of a small number of airlines that continues to transport these primates, Kite said.

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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

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It is extremely difficult for female pandas to reproduce in captivity, but the city of Chengdu in central China has become the worldwide epicenter for panda reproduction. The giant panda is one of the world’s most iconic species, but its population numbers are critically low. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K.,

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Then one day you go to a conference of historians and there is a special symposium being held by some well regarded colleagues, who have been working for months with some archaeologists on a secret project. .&# The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Kibale Forest NP–Primate Lodge. Their Ugandan contribution reached 258 before contact was lost. Ticks for November numbered 973 from 120 lists shared by 11 beats. Alphabetic Taxonomic. calle jocote. 28 Nov 2019.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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Fortunately, barbets are fairly common in Yunnan, China, so it was not a particular disappointment. In fact, John MacKinnon (of “Guide to the Birds of China”) in a recent Shanghai presentation called it “not a real woodpecker at all”, and while he is wrong about that, I sort of see his point.