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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

10,000 Birds

Once you manage to spell it correctly – which may take some time if my own Google experiences are any indication – you will find plenty of information online about the birds and the birding within this amazing park. At first I was really irritated by the crowds, by their noise and to some extend their littering.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. by Marc Bekoff. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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