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Stupid TLC Show Called "My Monkey Baby"

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Thanks to Chimpanzee Information for pointing this travesty out. It's a TLC show about humans that adopt monkeys and treat them as their children. Monkey business is big business in the United States, where some people pay up to $5,000 to adopt a monkey of their own, often a capuchin monkey, which can grow up to 22 inches and 9 pounds.

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How To Raise A Baby Bird – Professional Advice With Photos

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With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Take a look at these pictures. Black-capped Chickadee.

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How To Raise A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

With so much information on the Internet about how to raise an orphaned wild bird, how do you decide which advice to follow? On the left are healthy young wild birds, on the right are birds raised by well-meaning but unlicensed people who took their information from the internet. Take a look at these pictures. Black-capped Chickadee.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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If you can recommend a reliable weather god, please pass the information on to me so I can make arrangements with him/her before my next visit here. If I had just this information to go by, I would assume the “Great Parrotbills” to be the name of a Doo-Wop-Band. Among all mammals, I think I like monkeys the least.

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NASA Suspends Radiation Experiments

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For more than a year, we have worked to block NASA’s planned radiation experiments on live squirrel monkeys. NASA had planned to irradiate 30 live squirrel monkeys in a misguided attempt to learn the effects of deep-space radiation. Because of your hard work, these monkeys will not be irradiated or otherwise abused.

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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.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

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The Telomere does not contain useful genetic information, but rater, acts as a buffer. Had cells or organelles evolved, way back when, to handle “intelligence” rather than simple information signaling, they may have turned out differently, but that didn’t happen. Bird Brains Packed With Neurons. Here’s the problem.

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