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Costa Rica’s Best Birds of Halloween

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Lacking the benefit of heated shelters, birds must heed that warning or perish. Similar to Corvids and primates in more than one way, toucans are smart, very social frugivores that also feed on any small animals they can manage to catch. Hummingbirds.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

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They did not experiment on primates (I asked!), It reminded me of an adoption poster at the animal shelter. I can't really talk about what I do except that I work in government. In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. but did experiment on mice and guinea pigs. It was a jarring moment.

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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. Rufous Crab Hawk This particular wetland spills onto the sheltered southern coast – worlds apart from the roaring Atlantic pounding the east coast.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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The Congo Basin is the only place to shelter all three subspecies of gorilla: the Western Lowland Gorilla, the Eastern Lowland Gorilla and the endangered Mountain Gorilla. The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups.