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GUYANA–Simply Delicious Birding!

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And Giant Otters are still common in the rivers around Karanambu Ranch, home of the late “otter lady”, Diane McTurck, who used to rehabilitate orphaned otters and whose family still runs the lodge. Decades of trapping for the pet industry drove them to the brink of extinction, and their survival into the future was seriously in doubt.

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Rescue Spotlight: Rabbit Meadows

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As the name suggests, they rescue rabbits, but they also rescue other small animals like ferrets, and other small rodents. If you are in the Seattle area and are looking to add a rabbit or other small animal to your family, be sure to visit the Rabbit Meadows website. Tags: rescue spotlight ferret rabbit rescue rodent.

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Dogs and Rat Poison

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As the weather starts getting colder, there may be a problem with rodents coming into our homes to look for a warm place to nest. It can be ingested through direct consumption of the pellets, or indirectly from chewing on or eating a contaminated rodent. Have an exterminator professionally rid your home of rodents.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

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Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. With rodents off the table, though, it's not clear what's left for the activists to do.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Generally the large family herds of buffalo are peaceful, but the old bulls (called “dagga” boys, “dagga” being a Zulu word for “mud” since they are often covered with the substance after their long wallows) who have left the herds tend to be furious with life in general and anyone they can smash in particular.

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Thank a lemming

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The Collared Lemming is unique amongst rodents in that it changes colour in the winter to white. A friend of mine saw a family of eight Ermine while hiking this past summer. They actually make very good pets, becoming very tame quite quickly. In Inuktitut they are known as Avinga , which is also one of my son’s names.

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