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Keeping Guinea Pigs cool in the summer – your top 12 guide

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The recent warm weather has been perfect for us, but some Guinea Pig’s have suffered. Guinea Pigs can quickly overheat during the summer leading to heatstroke, which in severe cases can be fatal. Unlike humans, Guinea Pigs cannot sweat – … Continue reading →

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The popstars are back: Paradise Flycatchers in Shanghai

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It is listed as Near Threatened – the HBW cites the usual reasons that are just other ways of saying that humans do not care enough for other species, such as forest loss and degradation in its winter range. not their own). Switching to the Amur Paradise Flycatcher , which has the Latin species name of incei.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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According to the HBW entry for this species, it “has been claimed that loss of native mammals after European settlement created shortage of nesting material, explaining this species’ penchant for taking hair from humans.” These two Grey-crowned Babblers look remarkably like Statler and Waldorf, the two old men of the Muppets Show.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. It certainly doesn't fill me with confidence in these people's skills in compassion and humane care. Tags: animal experimentation mice Guinea Pigs medical research biotech. I can't really talk about what I do except that I work in government. Weird, weird, weird.

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History repeating itself

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If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles&# , studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific would lead you to conclude that God was also quite partial to rails. The fossil record of the islands don’t show the Buff-banded Rail appearing until after humans arrived.

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"Zoo from Hell" Owner Convicted in New York

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And people wonder why I'm so disappointed by humans. The animals included ducks, chickens, guinea hens, rabbits, sheep, dogs and cats. A farm-animal breeder who ran what a prosecutor called "the zoo from hell" was convicted Tuesday of animal cruelty.

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The Kookaburra, an Australian Icon

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At any rate goodbye Tony Abbott you awful terrible ghastly reprehensible and useless excuse for a human being. They are large, scruffy looking kingfisher by ancestry, five species of that family founds across Australia and New Guinea. Progress, of a sort. This is a double edged sword for me.

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