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Miracle Babies; Pandas and Leopards

4 The Love Of Animals

Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species. The giant panda is one of the world’s most iconic species, but its population numbers are critically low. Tuesday, September 13, at 8P ET/PT.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

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

10,000 Birds

Whatever it was, Corey was found at his keyboard 2 hours later, covered in blood and snot and sporting a cut lip, having announced that he and Mike would rescue the failing list by taking personal responsibility for adding 300 species. Kibale Forest NP–Primate Lodge. Their Ugandan contribution reached 258 before contact was lost.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

The Ashy Tailorbird is a good example of the different perspectives of describing a bird – while the English name focuses on the body of the bird, the Latin species name ruficeps refers to the rufous head. The split makes the bird one of the six species endemic to Sabah, Borneo ( source ), four of which I saw during my week at Sepilok.