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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

10,000 Birds

They range from the successful eradication of feral cats from Marion Island (hear that, Corey?) The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. As we were leaving Kruger early one morning, we spotted two cars parked next to this scene.

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4 Lions are dead: Sad and all, but does it actually matter?

10,000 Birds

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. The elimination of vultures had its own knock on effects, such as the increase in feral dogs (now that there was more meat available for them) and corresponding increase in rabies.

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