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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

Dale studied scarlet macaws, and worked in their conservation, for three years in southern Costa Rica, followed by a year in the Caribbean working on Whale Sharks. Might I assume that women typically bear fewer children, or fewer survive? Hat-tip to Stella. In this case, they would be exhibiting polyandry. Wicked, right?

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Chacachacare Island

10,000 Birds

Chacachacare (pronounced shaka-shaka-reh ) is the westernmost of the Bocas islands off the northwestern tip of Trinidad. Chacachacare was also the site of a US Army base, a leper colony, and before that, a whaling station. Then it hit me that the name of the island itself is rather exotic sounding.

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