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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? In the transport box was the bat and a SpongeBob Squarepants Pineapple House – she said that’s where he slept. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!”

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.