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7 Tips for Creating a Dog-Friendly Yard

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The following tips will help you create a beautiful yard where you and your dog can happily coexist. Also, check labels and do your research before you use any fertilizers, pesticides, or mulch. Combat “Dog Spots” The nitrogen content of dog urine tends to kill affected areas of grass.

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Yellow-billed Kites in South Africa

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It is now treated as its own species, confined to Africa and the tip of Arabia (Black Kites also migrate here from Europe and Asia). I saw these individuals in Imfolozi Game Reserve, where they were hanging around a kill.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros.

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The Elusive Goal of Bird-Safe Skyscrapers

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Hat tip to Pat O’Donnell for the story; the image above is by GDS Architects, via CNN.) Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky. Each year, millions are injured or killed when they slam into the sides of glass-sheathed buildings that reflect the sky.

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Flock to Marion

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These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Salvin’s Prion. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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Though in terms of aesthetics, their nests are not much to look at – a paper (in Thai, but with an English summary) describes the nest as “a bulky, untidy ball hanging from the tip of a branch of stick with an average height of 1.39 The dangers of being a geologist.

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

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It is home to some of the most concentrated and diverse shark populations in the world, including species with a reputation for attacking people, such as great white, bull, tiger, black tip, ragged tooth and dusky sharks. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? Time of day. Panic and fear.

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