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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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Most of them were Lesser Flamingos , with over a million birds present at times. The furry kind is represented with 95 species – more than in any other Ugandan park, 10 primates among them, including the Chimpanzee. Kibale Forest National Park The primate capital of East Africa!

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Another Research Company Accused of Animal Mistreatment

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The documents, disclosed to OutsourcingPharma.com by Executive Director of SAEN, Michael Budkie, are said to have been released anonymously from a past or present employee. They include reports on 16 incidences of fractures received by primates and one swine during handling between 2007 and 2009.

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The Royal Mile: Birding Fit For a King

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While the species sounds delicious, the nearly tailless bird presents a very bland appearance. I expected fleeting glimpses of chimps if we saw any at all, but my first encounter with these amazing primates in the wild lasted many minutes as our respective groups peered at each other from opposite ends of the road.

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On the threshold of flight

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Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. Which brings us to the present post, in which we ask “How many birds are there?” I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals.

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Secrets of the Swamps

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On Bush Bush, the main attraction is undoubtedly the pair of native primate species: Red Howler and (Trinidad) White-fronted Capuchin, the latter being critically endangered. Although not at peak migration season, we still scoped this location in the event there was anything present.