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For Wildlife Emergencies, Contact Animal Help Now

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Bird rehabbers receive calls for injured turtles; veterinarians are contacted about skunks in basements. Exclusive to licensed wildlife rehabilitators: if you are not listed with AHNow and wish to be, or if you are listed and need to change/update any of your information, email Research Director and Wildlife Rehabilitator Liaison Elena Rizzo.

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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The book’s twelve chapters can be divided into groups of 5, 5, 1 and 1. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought.

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How The Bird Got Its Beak

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Within species, or closely related groups of species, beaks vary by small amounts that result in important adaptive fine tuning, as we see in the Grand’s studies of the Galapagos Finches; Beak related behavior is at the cutting edge of survival for many bird species. See: Four Wings Good Two Wings Better? So how did beaks evolve?

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Turtles of the World: A Guide To Every Family–A Book Review by a Turtle Lover

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Turtles are the reptile everybody loves. Birders are always happy to see a turtle or tortoise, and there are times of the year when my social media feeds are sprinkled with photos of turtles beings removed from roads or crawling to land to lay eggs. Or that tortoises and terrapins are considered part of the turtle family.

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Pink in Africa

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Of course Africa could not to be left out of the pink weekend so I have researched all African species whose official or alternative names include the word “pink”. They usually occur in pairs or small groups but can gather in the thousands when conditions are right – for example when Etosha Pan in Namibia floods. Pink-breasted Dove.

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“Hawk” vs. Hawk

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Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Perhaps their next product will be named “Gills”—or “Turtle” or “Trout” or Salmon?” Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny?

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8 Reasons Why Bringing Your Dog To Work Is A Good Idea

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And, certain restrictions should apply, like no pythons or snapping turtles, or similar. You can have the image in mind of a group of chimps sitting around looking for insects at your next meeting. Dr. James Serpell of the Companion Research Group in Cambridge, says dogs have the same effect on people just by being in a room.

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