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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

Nat Geo Wild is airing an amazing show tonight called Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE! Unique complementary content will also be offered via social media including Facebook ( facebook.com/natgeowildusa ) and Twitter 3 NGC viewers outside the U.S. Does floating listlessly or actively swimming make humans a more attractive target?

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors? I don’t think so.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

Over at Animal Rights and AntiOppression , we’ve been discussing tactics and sharing our thoughts and experiences about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to advocacy. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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I would love to have a Red-tailed Hawk but with my travel schedule, there’s no possible way I could work with a bird, so I content myself with going out with my friends when they are gracious enough to invite me along like in the above photo when one of my falconer friends let me join him when he was hunting with his goshawk.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

10,000 Birds

Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! ” These are just some examples.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

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Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. Even during the breeding season the birds appear to be quite unwary of humans.

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