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Hill’s PetFit Challenge

4 The Love Of Animals

Is your dog overweight? You can join Alison Sweeney, host of The Biggest Loser , in making a New Year’s resolution to help your dog(s) lose weight by taking the Hill’s PetFit Challenge. In an industry first, Hill’s Science Diet Weight Loss System offers pre-packaged meals for your dog! million dogs and 93.6

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The Latin species name of the Grey Waxbill is perreini , honoring the French naturalist Jean Perrein (1750-1805) who apparently managed to die of malaria while traveling in the United States (Covid as a cause of death was not yet invented then). Well, Ndumo is a malaria area, so at least there is some connection.

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Western Snowy Plover

10,000 Birds

Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. Even on our trip down the coast of the western United States, every sandy beach, had me taking a little extra time, searching for Snowy Plovers.

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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

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At least in the northeastern United States, their rate of so doing is high, according to research I summarized here. Okay, I accept this is somewhat unconventional, but I can’t get away from the fact that the Painted Wolf , or African Wild Dog , comes up every time I try and think about this.

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