4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
Long before CAT scans, X-rays, blood samples and colonoscopies, physicians used the good sense they were born with: their sense of smell. Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. Rats help save humans. Sweet, fruity breath could mean diabetes. Liver disease?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2015
A sampling: “It was heartbreaking to watch (my cat) bring home between one and four birds a week.”. And I am a serious environmentalist, and my heart bleeds every time I take my old car batteries and leftover rat poison and dump them in the river. “The Birdsbesafe® collar is highly effective at reducing bird deaths,” she writes.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. The sheer number of species that have been shuffled around on our big earth is impressive, though we will be dealing with the smaller sample size of invasive avians and other invasives that effect avians.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2013
I usually enjoy collections of articles and essays, they allow me to sample different writers and different ideas. I suggest reading a library copy, so you can sample the twelve very different nature writers presented here. They succeed because they are honest and simple, even when they incorporate scientific data.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Nonetheless, this week will be chock full of invasive species.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2012
you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers. Which keep eating rat poison. An avid birder would perhaps visit a museum where stuffed birds were the multi-media of the day, and if you knew the curator (or were the curator!) Or get your own. It all depends on the dogs. But I digress.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
I queried for birds and mammals living in the new world (but excluding sea birds) outside of the tropics (which includes a lot of tropical migratory birds, obviously) an a similar sample of mammals. There are 200 animals in each sample, and I presume that this is a random subset of the larger sample of over 400 or so in each category.
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