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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

10,000 Birds

A Griffon Vulture ditches in the sea off Gibraltar and struggles to keep its head above the water Since 2003, Ruppell’s Vultures Gyps ruepelli , have been showing up with the Griffons. In my early days, some fifty years ago, the number of Griffons that I would see in a season can today be counted in a single flock!

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Finally. Jasmine the Greyhound

Animal Person

In 2003, police in Warwickshire, England, opened a garden shed and found a whimpering, cowering dog. The list of orphaned and abandoned youngsters she has cared for comprises five fox cubs, four badger cubs, 15 chicks, eight guinea pigs, two stray puppies and 15 rabbits. And for all of you naysayers, it was verified by Snopes. *