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Five tips to protect veterinary practices against cyberattacks

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Roughly 11,000 veterinary practices each year experience a cyberattack, and with just over 800,000 complaints of suspected internet crime in 2022, odds are the average practice owner is at risk.

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Breeding Crested Pigeons in Broome

10,000 Birds

Considering Broome often experiences cyclones and strong winds it does make sense for the birds to build a more substantial nest to survive the extreme weather. The Crested Pigeon family remained in the tree away from danger for quite some time with both parents present.

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You Work with What You’ve Got

10,000 Birds

We were happy to experience three birds of prey on this jaunt. Two classic birds of Mexico’s east coast are also present. They are even more awkwardly cute than adult Jacanas. Happily, one of the Seminary students is also a birder, and he walked the grounds with me on my second evening here.

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A World Turned Upside Down

10,000 Birds

Perhaps those people have never had to personally experience increasingly erratic climate patterns. The former should number at least a hundred thousand individuals each winter, while the latter should be present in the tens of thousands. I understand there are still people out there who deny human-induced climate change.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Hauber is really good at presenting scientific findings so they don’t seem scientific at all, simply reasonable answers to our questions. Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. These images are from the Kindle edition and are presented slightly differently in format and size in the paperback edition on page 22.

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NYT Equine Thought Experiment

Animal Person

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.