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A couple of facts :D

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How big cats hunt, big cats such as tigers, lions, jaguars, leopards and cougars though strong and fast have poor stamina, as ambush predators they'll want a quick kill as to minimize injury, so they'll use their powerful arms to hold prey down and bite them in the neck, quick and easy compared to the canines. •

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"The Cove" Continues to Disturb

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Clearly, it is disturbing enough to provoke some real discussions about the ethics of dolphins in amusement parks. Whenever I read about dolphins in places like Sea World, I think of an ex-co-worker named Gretchen who admitted she had "issues" with animals. The rest are killed with spears, knives and clubs in an orgy of cruelty.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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The Yangtze River Dolphin (the mammals described here are no less fascinating than the birds), iconic in Chinese culture, had its habitat was destroyed by a combination of human-introduced factors, including the blocking of the dolphins’ echolocation systems by large ships negotiating the river.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird. pigeons, Columbia livia ). Cucherousset, J., Boulêtreau, S.,

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Sperm Whales in Kaikoura

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What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. Sperm Whales feed deep, diving to the bottom of the trench, hunting for a while, then rising again to catch a breath. I always seem to see Kaikoura at dawn. The trick to finding Sperm Whales lies in their biology, we learned.

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