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Bird-Eating Fish

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From the abstract of that paper: The behavioral strategies developed by predators to capture and kill their prey are fascinating, notably for predators that forage for prey at, or beyond, the boundaries of their ecosystem. Notable is the high degree of variation among the sampled catfish; only some of the fish are eating pigeons.

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Bird Litigation: Spotted Owl v. Barred Owl

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A sample of this process is here.) However, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) broadly prohibits the “take” of any bird, which effectively means that a protected bird cannot be killed, harassed, or otherwise adversely impacted.

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Forensics Used to Solve Wildlife Crime in India

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In India, f orensic tests helped establish guilt in the killing of 10 endangered lions. Between February and March 2007, 10 lions were killed by poachers in three different incidents at the Gir National Park (GNP) which houses 360 Asiatic lions, the only surviving population in the wild. The link was clearly established.

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Raptors of Mexico and Central America: A Book Review

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Here’s a sample of Plate 30, Bat Falcon and Orange-Breasted Falcon (pp. 84-85, though it’s hard to tell because there is no pagination in this section, simply plate numbers): And, here is a sample of the first two pages of the three-page Species Account for Bat Falcon (pp.

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Smattering Sunday

Animal Person

To determine whether it was the Ami or kibble in general I snatched some samples of Wellness and she had the same issue. And then it proceeds to: "None of these questions, however, make any consideration of whether it is wrong to kill animals for human consumption." I tried soaking it (I soak the dogs' kibble) but she wouldn't eat it.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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didn’t sample enough taxa to resolve these questions, so the deep relationships among these groups will need further work. Pelicans are separate but are related to Hamerkop and Shoebill , and that group is related to herons and ibises. Jarvis et al. Core Landbirds. Jarvis et al.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 ” Many. Probably too many.