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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

10,000 Birds

There are many tales of a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from humans to use as nest-lining material. Watching a titmouse take hairs from a human is something I have always longed to see but I never considered how cool it might be to see a titmouse take hair from another creature.

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Andean Condors On The News

10,000 Birds

It is also true that condors will spot cows and other livestock giving birth and guard the animal to be there and take advantage of the placenta and other leftovers. The cause of this decline is not necessarily poisoning by humans, but this is just a contributing factor. The attribution of condors as killers seems accidental.

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.” Color, contrast and shiny surfaces.

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Foster to Toora

10,000 Birds

There is a water trough for the dairy cows, but sometimes the Pacific Black Ducks take advantage of the trough! There is a family of feral foxes that I often encounter near Bennison Creek. Foxes were introduced to Australia in 1855 for hunting and have established themselves far and wide. Pacific Black Ducks. Tiger Snake.

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

10,000 Birds

.’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. So why would they not insist that the cow that became their steak was treated humanely? Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Peters Paso Robles, Calif.,