10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
While I harbor mixed feelings about zoos in general, this facility seems to make the best effort possible to keep animals in interesting enclosures, move them to different areas of the zoo to maintain novel surroundings, and invest money and space into a 30 acre mixed species enclosure, where the animals can move freely.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2008
In some parts of Africa, rangers receive military training and equipment to defend animals (and themselves) from poachers in pursuit of elephants, rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered species. In Nicaragua, the army patrols beaches to protect sea turtle eggs. But now there is increasing talk of more far-reaching action.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
There are important details within that dictum that we will ignore here, but this has to do with knowing when a characteristic doesn’t really tell you about the relative position of species on a “tree of life” vs when the characteristic works for that purpose. Rather, cladistics is a way of looking at the process of evolution of species.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
Although work distracts him regularly from the observation of birds, he has managed to see a great many species regardless. The trip was short on time, so no gorillas, chimps, or Albertine Rift endemics. He firmly believes in the necessity of birders to contribute to conservation.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
That year Congress passed the Lacey Act, followed by the tougher Weeks-McLean Act in 1913 and, five years later, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protected not just birds but also their eggs, nests, and feathers 1. A newly created U.S. Why is this happening? People don’t respect wildlife.
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