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Eastern Imperial Breakfast

10,000 Birds

But persecution, killing and poisoning in the late 20th century has led to their demise and at the beginning of the new millennium, Serbia had only two to three pairs of Imperial Eagles. In the same period, neighbouring Hungary had more than 60 pairs of them. In other words, this globally threatened species barely made it in Serbia.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (1)

10,000 Birds

The Pastures of Great Bustard occupy 6770 ha of extensive steppe, bordered by meadows, pasture, arable fields and seasonally inundated depressions in the north of the country, towards the triple border with Romania and Hungary. That area should be able to support ten times larger population of bustards.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary. Here are a few examples: The Ostrich Communal Nesting System. Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania. Studies on improving ostrich egg hatchability. Ostriches originated in Asia. Ostrich industry in Egypt.

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The Danube Backwaters

10,000 Birds

The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. But, published in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, it was written in Hungarian. Yet, I never heard the splash of a beaver tail when it dives.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. Others lashed out and were killed. A team led by cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people.

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