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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept. Here is one: when taking photos of elephants, an 800 mm tele lens is not the best equipment.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Melange Monday

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Also at Parade , which reader morganna alerted me to, is " Should Apes Be Allowed as Pets? Finally, there's an alert from Susan Hargreaves, who is a humane educator here in South Florida (via Trish). There is an elephant who deperately needs our help. This happened with Janet an elephant in Palm Bay, FL.

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On THE DOG WHO COULDN'T STOP LOVING

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And I received confirmation of something I've known since 2004, when we adopted retired racing greyhound, Violet Rays: That there's sort of a critical period for dog-behavior acquisition, and if it's missed, the dog isn't likely to mature into the type of loving being whose behavior we've come to associate with "pet" dogs. And he details why.

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