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Birding the Kruger Park (4): Letaba area

10,000 Birds

Apologies – I have not taken my anti-cynicism medication for a while now, and it starts to show). To put it in the language of science: “Males did not prefer conspecific females whenever they were given a choice of a larger heterospecific female” Bigger is always better?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. 7, 2008 The writer is director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment , Harvard Medical School. Eric Chivian Boston, Jan.

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Blue-Collar Dogs on Nat Geo WILD

4 The Love Of Animals

The medical field has expanded use of dogs from assisting the hard of hearing and the physically challenged to predicting blood sugar crashes, detecting oncoming seizures and sniffing out disease. Premieres Monday, February 21 at 8PM ET/PT on Nat Geo WILD.

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