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PSA

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The mother only returns once maybe twice a day to feed and some species of rabbits like the eastern Cottontail have their babies in the open rather than burrows. 2) If the rabbit is in danger such as from your cat or dog try to release it out of the perimeter. The rabbit needs milk for 2 months before it can sustain itself fully.

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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

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This behavior is not at all out of character for Tufted Titmice as is explained on All About Birds : They line this cup with soft materials such as hair, fur, wool, and cotton, sometimes plucking hairs directly from living mammals.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

It’s not surprising that animals—especially, but not only, mammals—share many emotions with us because we also share brain structures—located in the limbic system—that are the seat of our emotions. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him.

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Comebackers

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In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. The foxes wreaked havoc on nesting birds, and island by island the geese disappeared, until it seemed that they were gone for good. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast.

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The One and Only Outer Banks Big Day

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We ended with 7 species of mammal, including River Otter, Gray Fox, and Marsh Rabbit, but the highlight may have been a little Canebrake Rattlesnake crossing the road at the Bodie Island lighthouse, a lifer herp for me. A Nelson’s Sparrow peeks out of an Outer Banks marsh. Photo by Nate Swick.