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Hornbills of Sabah

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Presumably, the species also not only eats fruit but also mammals and possibly birds –the HBW specifically mentions the species catching bats emerging from caves at dusk, and feeding them to juveniles. Unfortunately, the other hornbill species are not nearly as adaptable.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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.'” Tim Low (in “How Song Began”) gives a colorful description of Long-billed Corellas , stating that they “have drooping bills like witches’ noses” and explaining that “Their ‘noses’ are long because, like many mammals, they grub up juicy roots – or used to.” Talk about schizophrenia.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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The number of individual birds and mammals alone that are affected by these factors are countless; and when you consider fish, reptiles and amphibians, it is hard to comprehend the magnitude of life that gets wiped out around the world (and certainly including the U.S.) There is nothing abstract or controversial about this.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

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This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out. There may be more birds and mammals per square kilometer in South Africa. We are not counting insects.)

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