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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

Note the short legs, stout body and white rump and tail I see Muntjac on virtually every birding (or dog-walking) outing, as these small Asian deer are now very numerous around my home in the Suffolk Brecks. Above is a buck with antlers in velvet , while the animal below has clean antlers A Muntjac on the run.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. But hedgehogs? To control the rabbit a new wave of species were brought here, and much like the song about the woman eating the spider to get the fly it didn’t end well.