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Flock to Marion

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South Africa is their steward and have been declared Special Nature Reserves under the South African Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act in 2003, which restricts activities on the islands to research and conservation management. It is still volcanically active with researchers periodically discovering new flows.

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Newly Hatched Baby Birds Actually Look Kinda Like Dinosaurs

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Most researchers agree that modern-day birds are the only living members of the Dinosauria clade. The cup is made up of dry grasses, rootlets, and weed stems, then lined with finer grasses, hair and fur. After all, they are the species that got me started building nest boxes in the first place.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. A harem system would indicate that the males gather and forcibly retain the affections of their females, as is the case with the savanna baboon species, but not with Geladas. Photo by Adam Riley.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. More research is needed, but initial studies by the Pine Street Foundation and others on using dogs for diagnosis are promising. Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience.

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A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia: A Book Review by a Penguin Groupie

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The section South Georgia Wildlife describes 65 species of birds, 20 species of sea mammals, nearly 60 species of insects, and more than 40 species of flowering and nonflowering plants. Thirty-six Tubenose species are covered to varying degrees, depending on their status.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Kelson, published in 1895.