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Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

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Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information. Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers.

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Virginia Fox Smuggler Gets Six Months

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Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. He was caught after a yearlong investigation by Virginia game officials that included the undercover purchases of 54 red foxes and 47 coyotes from Blevins. The animals were transported in the closed bed of a pickup truck, sometimes with two dozen or more animals crowded together.

Virginia 100
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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A Question of Migration

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Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It And, much of the research being done in those days was about the mechanisms.

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