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The Gas Station Bird

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Both falconers and wildlife rehabilitators have to study, gain experience, and jump through various hoops in order to get their licenses. In Oregon you can’t own any “dangerous” wild animals, but you can get a special permit for a service monkey and anyone can fill their backyard with giraffes. Are we fed up yet?

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Recent publicity about these remarkable tribes has resulted in tourists wanting to experience this wild land and its attractions for themselves. Game was not plentiful but the highlight was finding a beautiful female Leopard with her cub next to the road, and along the Mago River, a Da Brazza’s Monkey gorging himself on figs.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. by Marc Bekoff. He stood up and quickly looked around.

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