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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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Incidentally, encounters with both aardvarks and zorillas are rare – it’s much easier to see lions and leopards. Lion – much easier to see than an Aardvark In contrast to East Africa, encounters with mammals while out birding in Europe are relatively few. We also saw a leopard, but it was the A to Z that sticks in the mind.

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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ). But marrying a widow and thus getting access to scientific information was not the only remarkable event in his life.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Sea lion mothers wail when watching their babies being eaten by killer whales. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. If she’d been left alone, she would have fallen prey to a lion or other predator. In many ways, human emotions are the gifts of our animal ancestors. Photo by Paul Huber.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea? A newly created U.S.

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