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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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Junco Mashup

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In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow. In it we can see things we recognize in other, more common, birds.

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“Dog Days and Poisons” – Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam

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While some people never overcome this vestigial aversion to sour and bitter sensations, this innate prejudice can be overturned with experience, becoming acquired tastes we learn to enjoy just as much as the more dependable, uncomplicated pleasures of sweetness, salt, and fat. Louis, Missouri population. That is, unless some St.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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They are also raised commercially for meat and eggs, as described in that beacon of ornithological knowledge, the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Male Brownish-flanked Bush Warblers with a greater repertoire of songs are able to hold their territory longer than those with smaller repertoires ( source ). Not this one though.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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Nonprofit organizations, science, and the best intentions in the world came to the rescue with a captive breeding program, and we now have over 400 Pink Pigeons living in Mauritius, the nearby island of Ile aux Aigrettes, and the zoos hosting the breeding program, including the Bronx Zoo. Horses bolted. … Day was turned to dusk.

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