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Study Shows Shorter Life Spans for Zoo Elephants

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Elephants born in European zoos die at much younger ages than those bred in protected spaces, says a new study that's adding fuel to an already fractious debate over the welfare of the animals in captivity.

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9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. The Great Ape Trust is the only place in America where this kind of research still goes on.” Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug. They're wild animals!

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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

10,000 Birds

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

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Around the World For Penguins: A Penguin Fan’s Book Review

10,000 Birds

–especially when reviewing books like A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia or Far from Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds. When we come to Gentoo Penguin again in the South Georgia chapter, for example, we’re referred back to its first appearance in Antarctica, utilizing the outline numbers.). Press, 2011).

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

10,000 Birds

Species accounts are sequential, one running right after the other. The introductory section also covers odonate colors, names, threats and conservation, research, how to photograph dragonflies, how to collect them, and, most importantly for us beginners, how to observe dragonflies and damselflies for identification. This one is 2.5

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Woodpeckers of the World: A Photographic Guide–A Review

10,000 Birds

To research this book, he traveled extensively to see as many woodpeckers as he could; this field experience was supplemented with museum research and consultations with other experts, plus a library of print material ranging from field guides to scientific papers. This makes it very difficult to research woodpeckers by genus.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

10,000 Birds

All the birds face right (with some exceptions, like the elegantly posed, back-to-back adult breeding Common and Thick-billed Murres) and the flying images can always be followed in a pattern, even when they interspersed with the smaller vignettes. 8) and seabird homes like South Georgia. CONCLUSION.

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