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Efforts to Rescue Lolita the Orca from Miami

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Animal-rights activists claim an orca is being held in an "inadequate tank" in the Miami Seaquarium. The federal complaint focuses on a whale named Lolita, who was captured more than 40 years ago, and has been held at the Miami Seaquarium. Read the rest of the article in the Courthouse News Service.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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The program has been successful enough that some of the birds have been released back into protected areas in California, Arizona, and across the border in Baja, but the species is still far from out of the woods. And when you think about it, that seems right. California Condor , photo by Sheridan Woodley. Old Wold Vultures.

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Veraguan Mango – Panama's ex-endemic

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Like when Cleveland local Lebron James showed up in Miami and started playing basketball for the Heat. Wicked, right? So when a bird -- that was previously thought to be endemic to one country -- is discovered in another, patriotic birders from the former country may not want to believe it. The proposal from U.S. Hat-tip to Stella.

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