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Bird Uganda with Bird Uganda Safaris

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Herbert travels broadly to attend birding festivals and fairs as an exhibitor and as a guest speaker on the topics of ecotourism development, community-based Skills training focusing on Women in tourism. Improving human livelihoods with alternative means of survival will keep the wildlife and habitats safe.

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Osprey in Missoula

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It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. As such success suggests, it is adaptable, taking readily to artificial nest platforms, coping well with most human developments save DDT and mercury pollution. Adaptation has its privileges!

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

9): Gail Collins writes: “Human-ape conversation was a very hot topic back in the late 1960s, when researchers first taught a chimpanzee named Washoe to use sign language. They're not like dogs and cats, which evolved with humans. To the Editor: Re “An Ape Types in Iowa” (column, Aug. Georgia State University Atlanta, Aug.