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Sea Snakes of Northern Australia

10,000 Birds

Olive Sea Snake that has had a dog visit it on the beach Olive Sea Snake with obvious bulge Stoke’s Sea Snake Stoke’s Sea Snake with wounds Dubois’ Sea Snake Dubois’ Sea Snake being returned to the sea! And that was one lucky dog, ey? I hope you enjoy these photos! Get yours today! They are very neat creatures.

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The tail of the Motmot

10,000 Birds

Less than a minute later, a very friendly black Labrador dog came ambling by. The Motmot never flew away, and as soon as the dog was out of sight, the tail stopped wagging. Their food consists of insects, small reptiles, and fruit. What had I done, what behavior had caused this?

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Not only do we take care of zillions of injured and orphaned birds/mammals/reptiles/whatever, we also have to deal with and educate the public. People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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German Canines to Help Catch Smugglers

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Amy, a German shepherd, and Uno, a Labrador retriever, have joined the team at {Frankfurt,} one of Europe's busiest airports — the first two dogs in Germany trained to sniff out live animals, plants or derivatives or remains of them. Interesting. Incredible that illegal smuggling is estimated at $293 billion. That's huge.

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The Crocodile Safari (Botswana)

10,000 Birds

An ultimate freshwater predator that for 100 million years felt no need to evolve any further, the Nile crocodile is the largest African reptile by far. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. The lady living on a farm by the Gaborone Dam said ‘I saw a croc taking an egret.’.

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Bringing Your Pet to Disneyland

4 The Love Of Animals

Then you hear a bark and realized, who’s taking care of the dogs when you’re away? Dogs, cats, birds (given there is no avian bird flu alert), rabbits and non-venomous reptiles are allowed. Everything is all set. Suddenly you don’t feel so excited anymore. What if he forgets to feed them on time? At Disneyland, you can!

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. This often applies in animal behavior and ecology, and this often comes about in relation to predator pressure.