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The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildliferehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.
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Artwork, photographs, descriptive paragraphs enticed from writers by wildlife biologist and writing instructor Nina Stoyan-Rozenzweig ; all were on display in the assembly hall, where mutual admiration and camaraderie grew by the day. Puffins growl like chainsaws, and one in Britain was seen carrying 62 fish in her beak.
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