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Shark Bay and Monkey Mia

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The site is famous for a place called Monkey Mia, where dolphins have learnt to come up to the beach a few times a day to get snacks. Cruises are available to go out and spot them, and we took one and after twenty five years of trying to see one of these odd sea mammals we finally did, and actually saw a mother and calf to boot!

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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62 Oriental Turtle-Dove. BONUS MAMMAL SPECIES LIST. OK, this isn’t much of a list, but all wild monkey sightings deserve recognition! ). Monkey at a monastery. Many spotted at Mai Po. 59 Caspian (Mongolian) Gull. Many spotted at Mai Po. 60 Whiskered Tern. 1 early bird at Mai Po. 61 Rock Pigeon. 64 Spotted Dove.

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