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Please help me!

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I'm a senior in high school and am taking an AP Research class. It would be ideal if I were able to work with rats or some other similarly intelligent animal, but when I brought it up to my dad he shut it down. I'm set on working with animals, as I'm not interested in anything else.

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Sani Pass – a Drakensberg birding gem

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Here one can also find pairs of very cute Sloggett’s Ice Rats , another member of Sani’s distinct fauna. The cute Sloggett’s Ice Rat is common on the upper sections of Sani Pass, image by Adam Riley. The lovely Yellow Canary, another Sani Pass target by Adam Riley.

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Wildlife Rehabber Misidentification

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I got a sewer rat a lady thought was a baby opossum,” chimed in Charis Palmer. “A Occasionally finders mistake not just species, but entire classes. “We “I had a cockatoo, a vulture, a Snowy Owl , and various hawks that all turned out to be pigeons,” wrote Joanne Cina-Dreeben. That’s probably why it hadn’t moved.”.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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I think he also doesn't know that not all of us think that chasing down Class B dealers is as important as working to shut down animal experimentation and create more alternatives. He concludes this segment with: Meanwhile, rats and mice are subject to some of the most extreme and invasive experiments in biomedicine.

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Still the Same Hawk: A Review of a Book about Nature and New York by a Native New Yorker

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Not surprisingly, I found the most compelling essays were those by people who had had similar experiences to mine. In Monarchs of the Urban Mind, Betsy McCully writes evocatively of a Sunday in September 1984, when “thousands of monarch butterflies descended from the sky to nectar on seaside goldenrods” in her Coney Island neighborhood.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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This is also a hard question to address because most data on animal size distribution does not compare across classes of animals, and/or focuses on groups that would not be helpful. Comparing mammals, birds, and reptiles, for instance, what is the distribution and range of sizes?

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