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Tufted Titmouse Plucking a Raccoon

10,000 Birds

There are many tales of a Tufted Titmouse taking hair from humans to use as nest-lining material. Watching a titmouse take hairs from a human is something I have always longed to see but I never considered how cool it might be to see a titmouse take hair from another creature. … a.

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More Birds Than Bullets: a book review

10,000 Birds

He tells, for example, of sitting close by a fox den, and watching a raccoon walk past it with a look of acknowledgement. He’s somewhat of a devotee of the tracking and bushwork guru Tom Brown, Jr.) The coon wasn’t scared, McMullan explains, because it can hold its own with a fox in a fight.

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. I’d like a hit squad to visit the people who call me in the middle of dinner or at 3 AM to tell me they have a baby raccoon they found two weeks ago,” wrote Kathy in Indiana. Summer is high season.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Jan Turner took in a raccoon cub delivered by a well-meaning couple determined to get it where it needed to go. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan. The lady didn’t want it to get out.” It was terrified.”.

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Group Seeks to Ban Chinese Fur Trade with Australia

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Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. Excerpted from the International Business Times. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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Activists in Mexico Bomb Max Mara Store

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It was not a whim or an attempt to get attention, as the sensationalist press will say; instead this is a response to the domination, objectification and commodification of millions of animals (mink, chinchilla, fox, raccoons, etc.)

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What is the National Bird of Panama?

10,000 Birds

Because they like to hunt in the tree canopy , they will also eat “iguanas, parrots, porcupines, coatimundis, and raccoons.” ” While they can live in human-modified environments, they are threatened both by deforestation and hunting, and less than 50,000 remain in the wild. ”

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