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Birding by Volunteering

10,000 Birds

My third trip was six months spend working on a monkey project in the jungles of Uganda. Volunteering provides a very different experience to tourism though. In Uganda I would often cross paths with Chimpanzees as they went about their lives and I went about mine (which was living with a troop of monkeys).

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. Chimpanzees and elephants grieve the loss of family and friends, and gorillas hold wakes for the dead. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences?

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. It also covers Andaman, Nicobar and Laccadive islands.

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