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

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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Not enough Woodpeckers

10,000 Birds

“I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Health powers everything else

Sales and Marketing Management

If you enjoy science (me, not so much), you can hop on the Internet and go down a lot of rabbit holes. While I enjoyed the research for this cover feature, most of what I need to know about doing well by taking steps to feel well comes through daily experience. They bring their whole selves to their jobs every day.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

10,000 Birds

This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. As Sibley tells us in the Preface, he originally intended to write a children’s book.

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A Trip to an Animal Lab

Critter News

In a brief tour of a particular biotech research company, I was taken to the animal lab. There was a poster in the lunch room with four cute animals (a dog, cat, rabbit and something else.) But when I got closer, I read, "Animal research opens minds." Well, kind of. It wasn't a full-fledged tour, but disturbing nonetheless.

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10,000 Birds - Untitled Article

10,000 Birds

I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. I get that we need to look and see how humans affect birds and things we construct like glass covered skyscrapers, wind farms and cell phone towers can kill a lot of birds, but is going after yards with bird feeders the best way to go about it? Never put up a bird house?

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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