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

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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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Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

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The site is famous for a place called Monkey Mia, where dolphins have learnt to come up to the beach a few times a day to get snacks. That’s fine, and I like dolphins, but I usually prefer them away from a circus. The dolphin feeding session was fun too. Dolphins are the stars of the show.

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Emus Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Into the Water

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Clare tipped us off to this nugget: a mob of Emu wading into the waters of the Monkey Mia preserve. Photo above by Katie Hughes/Monkey Mia Wildsights through ABC Rural). ” Bonus benefit of taking a dip in the ocean: The birds had a chance to spend some quality time with Monkey Mia’s famous dolphins !

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration.

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A couple of facts :D

Reddit Animals

• Tigers and other big cats are able to mimic other animals, tigers in specific mimic deer, bear, cattle and monkeys and the South American Margay can mimic the call of baby monkeys to lore adults. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses.

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Birding by Volunteering

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My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. In Uganda I would often cross paths with Chimpanzees as they went about their lives and I went about mine (which was living with a troop of monkeys). In the Bahamas I swam in a pod of feeding dolphins.

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H. J. McCloskey on Animal Rights

Animal Ethics

Thus, whilst research on chimpanzees, monkeys, and many other animals, reveals a significant degree of rationality which provides an important ground for justified moral demands that they be better treated than they now are, the degree and kind of rationality fall far short of that necessary for moral judgment and moral self-determination.