10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

We were woefully under-prepared in terms of planning – which almost kept us from meeting our friends – but we were also surprised and thrilled to learn that not only were Gray Whales migrating past the lighthouse, but Elephant Seals were lounging on a nearby beach! Elephant Seals. White-crowned Sparrow. Think again!

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Seals Elephants Whales Whaling 180

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Helpfully, the people administering this place have highlighted the naturish aspect of this place in several ways, the most obvious being a number of life-size plastic elephants complete with movement and loud sounds every few seconds. What more can a nature lover want. Birds, maybe? I think they must be Chinese owls.

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China Barn Owls Birds Laos 262

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ). On this trip, this forced me to participate in a side trip to the nearby Tembe Elephant Park. Mostly just oversized grey mammals there, not too many birds.

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Initially, I wasn’t that excited about seeing mammals. But, the anticipation of everyone else in the group was contagious, and when California birder Lori Conrad looked out the window of the plane as we started our descent and screamed, “Elephants! There are elephants down there!” I am a birder, after all.

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South Africa Africa Leopards Penguins 251

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photos courtesy of Mosetlha Bush Camp A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. And on the road, an elephant rules it.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 208

Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

Each one of the sleek, whiskered sea lions recovering at the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro has its own story. Some of the damage was caused by humans who shot, clubbed or threw so-called seal bombs at the mammals. From the Contra Costa Times. Others swim, play and jostle with one another.

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Seals Sea Lions Lions Wounded 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

It covers seabirds and marine mammals and miscellaneous living things–creatures likely to be found on day trips from the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. That’s 22 Marine Mammal species and 43 Seabirds. And, at 5 by 8 inches it may be small enough to fit into some people’s pockets.) Howell and Brian L.

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Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2015

Bigger than the African Buffalo or the American Bison, it is the largest land animal after the Elephant, Rhino, the Hippopotamus and the Giraffe. burning bright, In the forests of the night… Trips India Mammals' Huge black head with a white hat, strong horns… slowly disappear in the thickets. In the next post: Tyger!

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Tigers Boars India Chickens 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2016

also the crime rate lower than in developed countries, stable politics, reasonable prices and landscapes as green as can be.

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Africa Uganda Gorillas Rwanda 125

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

The river cruises up the Chobe River are most famous for the dry season aggregations of African Bush Elephants drawn to the year-round water. But even without huge herds of elephants large game is defiantly the major draw for most people on the cruise. Red Lechwe. In particular, there are lots of waterbirds.

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Botswana Birds Lesotho Elephants 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too. This park has inexpensive accommodation and experienced local guides, about 335 bird species (yet, rather unrealistic 522 eBirded species) and, among them, many West African birds at the eastern limit of their range.

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Africa Kenya Uganda Tanzania 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

With an elephant for scale. Their odd movements during these times caused some friends to nickname them “Creepers” I saw these two males outside my cabin in Mkuze, where they were unconcerned by my presence.

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Africa Hunters Goats Wolves 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 16, 2011

People also say that hyraxes are elephants, but they are so distant in their relationship that it is little different than saying that deer are a type of pronghorn antelope. Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate. Bipedalism is somewhat rare these days in the animal world.

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Birds Primates Marsupials Whales 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes. This species is primarily an insectivore.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

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. Empathy Among Elephants. Elephants have strong feelings.

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Emotional Animal Whales Whaling 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

And the Mammals. There are five species of seal that have been recorded in the Ross Sea – Crabeater , Weddell , Leopard , Ross (first described during the James Clark Ross’s expedition) and Southern Elephant Seal. On the Balleny Islands Antarctic Fulmar , Antarctic Prion and Cape Petrel also breed.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 165

Animal Person

JULY 3, 2009

Just to be clear, this book deals with the nonhuman animals who are most like us: social vertebrates, and specifically social mammals (and there are a handful of references to cetaceans who behave similarly). But as the frequently-invoked Darwin would say, those differences are of degree, not kind.

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Morals Mammals Humane Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Two young bull elephants slowly walk along the road in front of us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 185

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I’ll never forget my introduction to the mammals of Kruger National Park, South Africa. We –participants of the ABA South Africa Safari—were on a small plane when one Lori Conrad looked out the window and screamed, “There are elephants down there!” This means you need to pack a mammal guide in addition to your bird guide.

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 233

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2013

Rather, my trip to the American Museum of Natural History last week was enlivened, however slightly, by spotting a Rock Pigeon perched on top of the elephants in the Hall of African Mammals, safely out of the elements and unexposed to Central Park’s hawks. Not in any espionage sense. So what does it really mean?

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Elephants Mammals Buffalo Gorillas 156

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) The famous Verreaux family who made several expeditions into the province through the 1820’s and 1830’s procuring specimens for rich collectors.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The descriptions of the territory’s birds, seals, whales, introduced mammals, invertebrates, and plants are written within the framework of the conversationist, so it is more than a field guide, it is a record of endangered wildlife and the efforts being made to protect it.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 172

10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2014

First off, it seems that New Zealand’s two iconic families of ratites, large flightless southern birds that includes emus, rhea, ostriches, cassowaries and the extinct elephant birds, are not particularly closely related. New Zealand’s birds and mammals come from a number of sources. More invasions from the Subantarctic.

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New Zealand Penguins Sea Lions Lions 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

It’s the only park I have ever been to that not only have I seen all five of the Big Five (Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, White Rhino and African Elephant) in, but seen them all on the same day. Madikwe has perhaps too many elephants. Black-backed Jackals are awesome and smaller than you’d think. But they are very cute!

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South Africa Leopards Giraffes Africa 141

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The extinction event that wiped out the pterosaurs, the non-avian dinosaurs, and so much other life created enormous opportunity for new organisms to diversify and thrive (lucky for us placental mammals!), So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. Ratites, Tinamous, and Fowl. Where do these abilities come from?

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Family Parrots Birds 2014 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

Northern Carmine Bee-eater riding an Arabian Bustard by Markus Lilje/Rockjumper Birding Tours Northern Carmine Bee-eaters in particular are masters of this trait, and rides range from elephants, donkeys and goats to Kori and Arabian Bustards, Abyssinian Ground Hornbills and a variety of other larger birds and mammals.

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Africa Gabon South Africa Uganda 262

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 279

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2009

I do think that in my lifetime greyhound racing will end, circuses will be animal-free, elephants and marine mammals won't be in zoos, and fur might even be banned. The whole development of society must be slow and continuous, the changes incremental. ( None of these things will happen without targeted campaigns.

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Psychology Campaign Animal Rights Movement Suffering 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2014

The highlight is the river, and each morning and evening boats work their way up and down the rivers with tourists looking for Asian Elephants , Bornean Orangutans , Proboscis Monkeys , Saltwater Crocodiles and other exciting animals. Never did see an elephant though). The River in the afternoon.

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Birds Bats Elephants Family 180

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Similarly, the property protects an impressive large mammal fauna; it contains globally significant populations of African elephant (Loxodontha africana) (106,300), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (2,135) and wild hunting dog (Lycaon pictus).

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