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India’s Raptor Rescuers

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The sharp strings are a menace to passing birds – especially kites and other raptors – who cannot see them and sometimes suffer grievous, if not fatal, wounds. Unwilling to leave the suffering birds to die, they began bringing them home, asking veterinarians to make house calls, and keeping the recuperating birds on their roof.

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What’s in a Name?

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written by Bo Beolens and Michael Watkins, published by Christopher Helm in 2003. He didn’t, as far as I know, have any connections to the slave trade, but not only did he go off with another man’s wife, leading to being court-martialled and thrown out of the army, he also suffered the indignity of being sued by his own son.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

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The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday. Many of the LGUs have replied, some of them many times.

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Controversial Elephant Death at San Diego Zoo

Critter News

Umoya, a 21-year-old African elephant, died Thursday, possibly due to injuries suffered during an attack by another elephant. This elephant's shocking death is another tragic example of how elephants suffer in inadequate and artificial zoo exhibits," said Catherine Doyle, elephant campaign director for the group.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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Or to quote directly from the source : “Observations conducted in 2003 at Xing-Ren Tuo in Liaoning Province indicated that the species had a low within-pair copulation frequency and a relatively high extra-pair copulation frequency.”

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