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The Why of Ferrets

10,000 Birds

It was a humiliation for scientific know-how and the technocratic fix in the face of environmental catastrophe, a disaster that would inform the controversy over later captive breeding efforts for other endangered species. Then, in Meeteese, Wyoming, the Hogg family’s ranch dog Shep found something. But this is real life.

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THE QUEST FOR THE RAREST OWL OF INDIA

10,000 Birds

We stop again and search the leaves: Rufous Treepie (a rather handsome forest crow), Greater Racket-tailed Drongo with its long streamers, Lesser Goldenback woodpecker… We’re winding through the forest. Nagzira Tiger Reserve: the Indian Wild Dog. Several more Langurs, but not a trace of an owlet.

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