Critter News
OCTOBER 5, 2009
As you might remember, Bioculture—a company that supplies primates to laboratories—plans to capture monkeys from their homes in Mauritius, hold them captive in Puerto Rico, and then sell thousands of their babies for use in painful and deadly experiments around the world.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2014
With their strong flight and capability to disperse, parrots have managed to colonize almost every major island group from Tahiti to Mauritius to Dominica. In my experience, parrots form a visibly and numerically important component of the Brazilian bird fauna. There seems to be a parrot for almost any ecological situation.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 7, 2021
I may have very limited experience with dolphins and no experience with whales, but the illustrations show the entire animal in the way only divers can see it, without a second illustration of the tail shape, something whale-watchers can actually spot from a boat. Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. Langrand, Don E.
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. Feature photo of Tom Cade with Mauritius Kestrel by Carl Jones used by permission of The Peregrine Fund. It was there where the first glimpse of his future began.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
Mauritius: birding some less well-known spots Pinch Me… I’m Going to Ecuador! 3 Responses to “Spring is for Wheatears&# Duncan Mar 18th, 2011 at 3:36 pm I got to experience a wheatear-palooza on my one day birding around Dubai last year. • Explore These Related Posts First Phoebe of 2011 Spring is Coming!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
Pink pigeon near Le Pétrin, Mauritius by Michael Hanselmann, used under Creative Commons license. A bit of background: Pink Pigeons are medium-sized, pink/gray/ brown birds found on the island of Mauritius, Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Is this the type of avian experience we want? More about the Dodo in a minute.)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2011
The experience was to prove critical the following year when introduced rats reached crisis levels on the remaining island of the South Island Saddleback. It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. Today the species is secure on a large number of islands and reserves.
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