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The Crocodile Safari (Botswana)

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nubicoides ) using them as a high viewpoint to hunt dragonflies. The lady living on a farm by the Gaborone Dam said ‘I saw a croc taking an egret.’. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. Vervet Monkey c. 24°45’45.74″S, 25°51’5.93″E.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Useful species were ones you could eat, or hunt, or preferably both, which is why New Zealand had several species of deer, the alpine goat-antelopes known as the Chamois and the Himalayan Tahr introduced.

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Jinx Warbler Vanquished

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Julie has seen or heard several on our farm here in southeast Ohio! I got out of the car, climbed a small hill where the shooting benches were and realized I was looking at a fabulous patch of habitat for a great gray owl to hunt. The day shift, hunting the meadow. My monkey bridge back across the boggy creek. But not me.

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Birding Borneo with Non Birders

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For good reasons the paths are not open if there are no flowers, and this limits visitors to a busy mountain road, although there is a small orchid and butterfly farm on the road up. Also in the Crocker Ranges, this site is probably a miss for non-birders if the massive Rafflesia flowers are not, well, flowering. Danum Valley.

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