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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day. On one hand, dolphins are apex predators and a proof of a preserved ecosystem. said that he dreamt of river dolphins. This dolphin shapeshifter is called an encantado. . “Shameless creatures: An ethnozoology of the Amazon river dolphin” Ethnology.

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Lest we Forget – BP Oil Spill 2010

10,000 Birds

July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. Least Terns resting on an oil-stained beach July 15, 2010 Wellhead is capped.

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

In a manner that’s Malcolm Gladwell meets Freakonomics, which is the fascinating part, Herzog investigates our beliefs and actions regarding nonhuman animals (anthrozoology). The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue).

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