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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Anderson, famous for slow-motion beach running scenes in the hit 1990s lifeguard TV show, wrote to R.C.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 2)

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Quite likely, these birds are also the inspiration for Australian science communicator Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki. 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.”

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India.

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KwaZulu-Natal

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The bulk of the population (approximately 80%) belong to the Zulu tribe, but significant numbers of Xhosa and Afrikaans, as well as immigrants from India and Britain call this beautiful patch of land on Africa’s eastern seaboard their home. At 36,433 sq. Natal Francolin was discovered in what was then known as Natal Colony by Dr Andrew Smith.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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Of course, the same applies to pizza services for humans. Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children. Why move toward the food when you can have the food move to you?

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