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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature

10,000 Birds

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. the hits keep coming.

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Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The park was created as much to protect the local communities from marauding elephants with a hatred of dangerous humans and a lack of interest in the differences between nations as it was to protect the elephants. It was pretty awesome to see so many tuskers, as well as families of elephants safe in their special park.

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Dog Death Squads in China

4 The Love Of Animals

Here is the letter: I’ve just received an urgent report that another city in China is planning a mass cull to slaughter any unregistered dogs, strays, and even registered family dogs that are over 14 inches (35cm) tall. This is truly horrible, and hopefully the IFAW will be able to help stop it with your help.

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Three High Tech Pet Gadgets

4 The Love Of Animals

But some dogs can’t get used to having to push the door open themselves, and there’s also potential for stray animals or even wild animals like racoons to find their way into your home. Take steps to protect your horse—and your investment—the way you would for your housepets. The solution is an electronic dog door.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

10,000 Birds

If you see a flock of kestrels in southern Europe, then the chances are that they will be Lessers, for the Common Kestrel never flocks, though occasionally in summer you will see a family hunting together. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population.

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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. Let's deconstruct: Part I: Where's Pepper? I addressed this one last week.

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Days of Guano

10,000 Birds

Large areas of the islands are taken over as the breeding grounds of the Western Gull , a large bird that is without question the most ornery member of the family I have ever encountered. Notice the correct Farallon Fashion accentuated by contributions from angry gulls. It’s a hot sunny day.

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