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Rancho Naturalista Lodge, Costa Rica, or in the Land of Coffee and Chocolate

10,000 Birds

A Wood Stork lands in a tree, while one Neotropical River Otter swims across and climbs a floating log. campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. Daniel the driver was way smarter, finding the only shadowy spot next to the D-Max.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. You can make a similar map for the small carnivores, the Mustelids, such as minks, ermines, otters, etc.