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Wood Anemones

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Trees, mammals and wild flowers colonised the tundra which until then had been the typical landscape of the isles. The stems rise from the rhizome which nestles in the leaf litter of the woodland floor. Until this original Brexit, free passage of species had been possible.

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Wood Anemones

10,000 Birds

Trees, mammals and wild flowers colonised the tundra which until then had been the typical landscape of the nascent isles. The stems rise from the rhizome which nestles in the leaf litter of the woodland floor. Until this original Brexit, free passage of species had been possible.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales.

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Make Your Cat an Indoor Cat

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As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Litter Boxes : At least one litter box per cat, cleaned out daily. Their Indoor Cat Initiative has a ton of great information and even a DVD you can order!

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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

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Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data.

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Thank a lemming

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Lemmings can have four or five litters a year of as many eight young. Few predators are better adapted to prey on lemmings than Ermine Lemmings have cyclical populations that build from low numbers into years where the populations explode, only to crash and then start the cycle over again.

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Bunny Love

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Apparently without fidelity to a specific mate, although pairs will soon move off and establish, and defend, their own territory to raise their litter. Females become less likely to rebuff male advances, and copulation takes place quickly without much fanfare.

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