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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. Hence, the experiment was created: a plot was fenced off to keep the animals away and now willow saplings did survive being submerged for half a year. I do have experience with this species from Bodrum, Turkey; it is daring, bold and cocky, and is impossible to forget.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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