10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
As Marra and Santella note, tens of millions of people have “a deep bond and connection with cats” precisely because they’re a little bit wild, among a multitude of other reasons including soft fur, cuddliness, and playfulness. Infected rats, for example, no longer shun cat urine but find it an aphrodiasic.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
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. The settlers were not daunted by this inadequacy of New Zealand’s biota.
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4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 1, 2011
He’s only about the size of a rat.”. It showed Fizzle, white fur gleaming, red bow in his topknot, sitting on the lap of a woman who, like Barb, looked as if she hadn’t lived an easy life. I made a mental note to get a tetanus shot. Then I noticed that several family members were also nursing bleeding wounds.
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 1, 2009
Our animals range from a small pet rat to miniature horses. His lil hand slowly and gently moved anchoress Polo’s fur. Our group started as 1 individual (Gayle Igarashi) hoping to make a difference in the lives of the elderly and has prospered from there. Do you have a favorite story you’d like to share?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The South Georgia Pipit is near threatened, its nests predated by rats, and is one of the main reasons that the South Georgia Heritage Trust aims to eradicate rats from the whole area. Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2012
The highlight of the night was a Striped Possum, a large squirrel sized possum with black and white striped fur. There were also massive native White-tailed Rats and the Northern Brown Bandicoot. Most of these were easy enough to find on later dates,along with the smaller native Bush Rats, but I only saw one Striped Possum.
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