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Bird vs. Reptile in Key West

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Key West Wildlife Center takes mostly birds, but will rescue mammals, marine mammals, and both land and sea turtles as well. KWWC captures injured, sick or orphaned wild chickens, then adopts them out to homes on the mainland. Eventually the business and the workers moved to Tampa, leaving a sizable chicken population behind.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. While equally at home among cattle and elephants in areas where neither are available it has adopted airports, where they feed on insects that get stirred up by passing planes. This species is primarily an insectivore.

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I Remember Elephants

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Will the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) conference delegates up-list them to Appendix I of the Convention, forbidding any future sale over international borders?

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The Darwinian Chick

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Baby birds are different from baby mammals in some interesting ways. One Northern Cardinal was even observed to have adopted a school of gaping goldfish at a pond where the fish were accustomed to begging from people! This is different from mammals. That is a signal that always says “I’m hungry feed me NAO!

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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billion mammals annually. Our findings suggest that free-ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for US birds and mammals. Be prepared to take one (or several) in and work towards removal and adoption.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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In three cases of adoption the common factor was that the adopting individual was sexually attracted to one of the real parents of the young. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ).