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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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Babita Tours has many years of experience organizing tailor-made wildlife tours for private groups in this wonderful country. The forests are also home to Asiatic Elephants and Capped Langur Monkeys. We would also visit Ranthambore National Park where we hope to see more wonderful wildlife, and with luck, tiger.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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I couldn’t help thinking this–me, the anthropomorphism hater– as I watched a pair of Philippine Eagles tend their nest, raise a chick, and tear monkeys apart in Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth , a well-crafted, beautifully filmed documentary with a mission. The Philippine Eagle has a kind face. link] [[link].

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Bush Meat, Trafficking Decimate Vietnam

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Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said. But the problem is the high demand for these products.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. BBC has the story as a video.

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The Geladas of Ethiopia

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These experiences were the highlight of my trip to Ethiopia and one of the most fascinating and enjoyable encounters I have ever had the privilege to experience in many years of wildlife watching. A harem male grooms one of his females. Photo by Adam Riley. Photographing Geladas in Ethiopia’s Simien Mountains by Dave Semler.

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Tiritiri Matangi Island

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On my first visit to the island a few years ago I even found one hunting for sandhoppers and other assorted treats in the washed up seaweed on the beach. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. Saddleback ( Philesturnus carunculatus ) on the beach. The proposal from U.S.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.