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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting.

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A winter miscellany

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Today these trees – oak, beech and horse chestnut – are like fine icing on a very poor cake. One creature that doesn’t budge for the Nuthatch is the Brown Rat, and a pair of these rodents were demonstrating their agility by raiding the bird seed. They make the forest look much more inviting than it really is.

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Tails of Aloha

4 The Love Of Animals

Our animals range from a small pet rat to miniature horses. Our Great Dane team is actually larger in size than our miniature horse team…LOL). Our group started as 1 individual (Gayle Igarashi) hoping to make a difference in the lives of the elderly and has prospered from there. Do you have a favorite story you’d like to share?

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. Navy wiped out every single rat on Midway Atoll, seabirds flourished afterwards. For example, when the U.S. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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Homage to Catalonia

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On the opposite bank, European pond terrapins are basking in the sun and, behind them, a herd of horses is grazing, preventing the scrub from taking over the grasslands. First stop is the nearby Llobregat Delta reserve, a network of canals and pine forests squeezed in between the airport and industrial plants.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

Critter News

Homemakers employ deadly rat traps and poisons to rid their dwellings of vermin. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.

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Python Caves and the Very Dangerous Bats

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Hendra, a nasty Australian virus, spread to humans and horses from fruit bats, as have other diseases elsewhere. No one is sure quite why bats host so many dangerous diseases; it may simply be that they don’t, only there are lots of them in close proximity to us (not unlike rats).

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