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Foreign animals surviving in other climates

Reddit Animals

The monkeys made sense; many species of apes and monkeys are adaptable to many climates and are similar to humans in terms of anatomy. This reminded me of those hippos at Pablo Escobar’s compound that have since proliferated and then I just kept thinking about other potential species. The giraffes did not.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

There are the endemics, which are odd in their own way, and then there introduced species, which are so varied in their type and origin that you get the feeling you’ve arrived at the aftermath of a small zoo that escaped. What is surprising is quite how many species did end up here, and how economically unimportant they were.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Over the years Jethro approached rabbits as if they should be his friends, but they usually fled. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. Jethro and the Bunny. Jethro the dog.

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