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Animal Cruelty at Texas Horse Farm

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The Humane Society of the United States, SPCA of East Texas and Humane Society of North Texas worked with the Smith County District Attorney's Office to rescue 50 horses from a Lindale property. Some even suffered from parasite infestation and overgrown hooves. The group also included pregnant mares and a few yearlings.

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DDT, oil spills, and a wall.

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Terrestrial animals could drown; will not be able to access the necessary ranges; be trapped; suffer diminished genetic diversity; and possibly become extirpated and/or extinct. It has since become common year-round in native woods of far southern Texas.”. Borderlands Campaign – Sierra Club Facebook group for this issue. . *

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Endangered and Unknown: Red-billed Curassow

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Red-billed Curassow ( Crax blumenbachii ), a large, ground-dwelling bird belonging to the same family as the more familiar Plain Chachalaca of southern Texas, was never a very widespread species. About thirty minutes later, a few distant views of the Red-billed Curassow. Is that all we are going to get? Or so we thought.

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Birds of Central America: A Field Guide Review

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’ So, we learn that the gulls in one grouping are all rare, and the gulls in another grouping are part of a “large, cosmopolitan group,” that must be identified through studying structure, upper-wing pattern, and head pattern. of Texas Press in 2013 (I haven’t examined either title).

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