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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

Critter News

Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds. These families dress their monkeys, feed them at the dinner table and treat them like any other member of the family. Who suffers?

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The Giving Birders: Are They Out There?

10,000 Birds

As you probably know, birding can be the domain of the wealthy, at least here in the United States. They have suffered from competition with Blue-winged Warblers (including hybridizing), forest succession, and parasitism by Brown-headed Cowbirds. Rich in life, rich in birds, yes…but a birder billionaire I am not.