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Have You Considered Keeping Goats as Pets?

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Have you considered keeping goats as pets? If you want a slightly unusual pet that has lots of personality and can also be petted, consider keeping a couple of goats. If you want a slightly unusual pet that has lots of personality and can also be petted, consider keeping a couple of goats.

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Australasian Snapper, Pagrus auratus

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A pair at Goat Island Marine Reserve Being both large and common means that snapper have long been fished in New Zealand. Protected snapper show no fear and even considerable curiosity when it comes to divers. But with the increase in predators the kelp recovered around Goat Island , to the benefit of many other species.

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Tribes and Birds of the Lower Omo Valley by Adam Riley

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Nearly 2,500 square miles of the wildest sections of the Omo Valley are protected in the almost contiguous Omo National Park on the river’s west bank (Ethiopia’s largest park) and Mago National Park on the east bank. A Konso village perched atop a terraced hill.

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The University of Puerto Rico, an "1862" LGU founded in 1900, operates a slaughter facility killing small ruminants -- typically goats and sheep, cattle being large ruminants. There's an Archive icon for possible later listening. Ruminants are four-footed, hoofed, even-toed, cud-chewing mammals with four stomachs.

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Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction–A Review

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Much of Wingate’s professional life revolved around his grand plan to create a “living museum” of pre-colonial Bermuda flora and fauna on Nonsuch Island, a habitat where the cahows would be protected and supported.

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Can Stewart Island become Pest Free?

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Getting rid of rabbits and goats was something that had been done for many years, but it was generally thought that rats and cats would be impossible to remove from all but the smallest islands. New Zealand faces massive challenges in protecting its species. The other obvious solution was to make more predator-free islands.

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Africa’s endangered species

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This is despite the fact that the Northern Bald Ibis was one of the earliest officially protected species, thanks to a decree by Archbishop Leonhard of Salzburg in 1504. This colony outlived dozens of others as it was protected by the local religious belief that the ibises migrated each year to guide Hajj pilgrims to Mecca.