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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

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This is the time of year that we rightfully contemplate the noble Turkey. I don’t believe, but this is subject to correction, that the wild and domestic Turkey were ever called by different binomials. Photograph of a Wild Turkey at Flatrock Brook Nature Center, in Englewood, New Jersey, by Corey. And it isn’t.

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A True Mouse Anecdote -- does anyone have a similar story?

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I read that if you scale up a mouse to human size and you look at body-lengths per second, they are moving at 152.6 They are not genetically so dissimilar to humans, sharing a lot of our genetic material. I even met a feral racoon at like 3 or 4 am. mph (not sure why so precise since they vary in size and speed).

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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I know on some level, I think that’s something almost all of us can get behind…no one, except the most callous and cold-hearted of the human race things its fine to torture animals, or deny that they are capable of pain and suffering. . – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights.

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Road birding in New Zealand

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The most common habitat you’ll drive through is modified human farmland, although particularly in the hills you’ll find large areas of forest (although this habitat is typically harder to road bird in. Feral Turkey are also quite common. But these aren’t the only large ground-loving birds you might encounter.