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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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She turned, looked, and by the expression on her face I guessed she was thinking “Goodness, I’m glad that was not a lion.”. Have you ever seen the Dryfus Lion? I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Unless we put them there.

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

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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. This morning I opened up my iPad, read the Guardian and saw that four lions were killed without reason by a zoo. Losing a few non-breeding lions in zoos a great deal less.

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Birding and Safari-ing South Africa with the ABA

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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.