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A couple of facts :D

Reddit Animals

Elephants can communicate via vibrations, they have these fatty pads within their feet which is also what allows them to walk quietly, these pads can easily pick up vibrations. Deer, cattle, camel and goats are more closely related to dolphins and whales then they are with horses. . •

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Summer guide to bird taxonomy and systematics news

10,000 Birds

Slager and John Klicka propose the new genus name Spizelloides for American Tree Sparrow , which is not a Spizella sparrow and is instead distantly related to Fox Sparrow , Zonotrichia , and the juncos. Elephant birds and their kiwi kin. A new genus for the American Tree Sparrow. And more sparrow shake-ups to come. Gowen et al.

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. Over the last two years, authorities have discovered 57 cases of trafficking in wild animals involving more than 7,612 individuals including monkeys and Tibetan bears and elephant tusks.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

10,000 Birds

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

10,000 Birds

Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Violet-crowned Hummingbird – Amazilia violiceps. Paton Center for Hummingbirds (Patons’ Yard). 12 Oct 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018. Broad-tailed Hummingbird – Selasphorus platycercus. 08 Oct 2018.

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Collaborative list – December 2018

10,000 Birds

Elephant Butte Dam area, New Mexico. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Restaurante Rincón Suizo–sendero en bosque de pino-encino. 11 Apr 2018. Gray Catbird – Dumetella carolinensis. Lakeview Drive Ponds. 01 Jan 2018. Curve-billed Thrasher – Toxostoma curvirostre. 09 Oct 2018. 07 Jan 2018. 21 Feb 2018. Nations Rd.

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