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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. of its hunts are successful. Back to birds. Lucky him, right?

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Elephant The big – two species of elephant are now recognized as occuring in Africa, the smaller and more secretive Forest Elephant and the larger, more familiar African or Bush Elephant.

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