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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

10,000 Birds

Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). However, it is kind of sophisticated in that the females lay very individualized eggs in order to be able to detect the added eggs of parasite cuckoo finches.

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Lightning Storms and Eagles

10,000 Birds

But in birds they eat living tissue, and once they are internal will kill the patient. We medicated her for maggots, picked at least 100,000 of the creepy critters from her abdomen, and finally treated the injury. Within a few hours we had cleaned it, picked it clean of maggots, and treated it for any residual maggots or their eggs.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

As the lead prosecutor in this case told the jury, this poor infant was not killed by a vegan diet. The medical journal Lancet recently published findings showing that children who are not adequately nourished in the first five years of life sometimes never catch up to their peers.