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Dogs of Courage

4 The Love Of Animals

There are also tales of dogs who weren’t specially trained, but who turned out to have skills that helped their humans in unexpected ways! Midge, the eight-pound Chihuahua and smallest police dog, who has appeared on the Rachel Ray Show, Fox and Friends, CNN, MSNBC, and other media outlets.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

10,000 Birds

” Aisholpan, in traditional eagle hunter garb, first trains with her father’s eagle, and then, in the climax of the act, we witness her and her father stealing a young eagle from its nest on the side of a steep cliff. It takes days to find a fox for the girl and her eagle to hunt, and the first effort does not go well.

Eagles 101
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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. Today, because of the consolidation of the industry, all of our trains are barreling down the same tracks, and it takes only one critical contamination to cause a disaster.