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Visit the Macaw Lodge in Costa Rica

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But the Macao Sanctuary is not only characterized by its high diversity in birds, there are also around one hundred species of mammals, including bats, thirty species of frogs, fifteen species of snakes, and innumerable insects such as butterflies and dragonflies.

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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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It is clear though that Burmese Pythons in South Florida come from a founder or source population as studies showed that DNA samples from snakes caught in the Everglades show they are related to some degree. The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well. Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. Notable is the high degree of variation among the sampled catfish; only some of the fish are eating pigeons. Catfish in the range of 1.0

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Welcome to Invasive Species Week!

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We will cover mammals, plants, and, of course, birds. The sheer number of species that have been shuffled around on our big earth is impressive, though we will be dealing with the smaller sample size of invasive avians and other invasives that effect avians. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. The sheer number of species that have been shuffled around on our big earth is impressive, though we will be dealing with the smaller sample size of invasive avians and other invasives that effect avians.

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of Feral Cat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. Free-roaming cats will hunt and kill birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish, resulting in wildlife mortality. And it goes on and on, this is just a sampling. Conservation cats'

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. But in the absence of Efe Pygmy hunters, we ran into ground mammals much more frequently, and not because we were doing a better job of sneaking around. During the former periods, we certainly came across animals, but rarely.

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