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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

Whales are cows. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice. Cows do not.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

Elephants, whales, hippopotamuses, giraffes, and alligators use low-frequency sounds to communicate over long distances, often miles; and bats, dolphins, whales, frogs, and various rodents use high-frequency sounds to find food, communicate with others, and navigate. A Grateful Whale.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Despite depicting 540 species/56 families, it is a lightweight book of 173 pages, easy to pack and carry. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales. It also covers Andaman, Nicobar and Laccadive islands.

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

10,000 Birds

Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) 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.

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