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I Remember Elephants

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In Africa, one elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. A different research says, from 2002 to 2011 the known populations of forest elephants declined by 62%. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S. Another ellie is being killed as you read this line.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. The purple feather of the title is an ostrich plume (now housed in the Museum of London), a symbol of Emmeline’s crusade and personal style (if you saw the 2015 film Suffragette , Meryl Streep, playing Pankhurst, is wearing a hat full purple feathers).

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Open Jarvis et al.’s

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Collaborative List – May 2018

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And Great Tinamou gets knocked from its taxonomic top spot (a position that it has held since day 1) by the Common Ostrich. Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Alphabetic Taxonomic.

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Collaborative List – October 2018

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Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 23 May 2018.

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Collaborative list – September 2018

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Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 23 May 2018.

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Collaborative List – July 2018

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Common Ostrich – Struthio camelus. 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). 301 N Virginia Dare Trl, Kill Devil Hills US-NC (36.0166,-75.6573). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). 23 May 2018.

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