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Utah's Shelters Providing Strays to Labs for Research

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The practice gained wider publicity after the animal rights group PETA said earlier this month that 1 of its agents spent eight months working undercover at University of Utah research facilities. Tags: animal research animal shelters strays.

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Woodland for sale

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The real upside is that it is right by my house and the Tawny Owls occasionally stray into my oak tree at night. After a lot of backing and forthing, the vendor accepted our offer and the wood is to become a trust to be protected in perpetuity. Anti-social behaviour has degraded the ambience of the wood in the past.

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The Hummingbirds of Western Montana

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As far as right now, the first report of a Calliope Hummingbird from the local bird mailing list came in on April 22. When I was young, it was the only western hummer to routinely stray east in the winter months. But my mom sees hummingbirds at her feeder constantly, and here my feeder sits, all forlorn. It breeds into Alaska.

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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights

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Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. Therefore, we are the only ones who matter and the only ones who should have rights. Therefore, we are the only ones who should have rights. Do you care about the stray dog or the almost extinct tiger?

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Which Bird Species Have Gone Extinct in Costa Rica?

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Must be a joke, right? The good news is that these two species have a pretty big range, occur outside of Costa Rica, and could be reintroduced given the right conditions (like reforesting more of the Caribbean slope and restoring more wetlands). But how about when the Costa Rica conversation involves a birder? What a horror!

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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

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An exhausted, panting, Griffon Vulture sits on a sea wall at Gibraltar, with a backdrop of spring-colorful wildflowers at Gibraltar These birds have crossed the Sahara Desert to winter in the Sahel Region, some right down to Senegal in West Africa, and are now on their way back.

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All my patches

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There were grumpy old fishermen, fishing through the closed season when the fish enter the backwaters to spawn, but also carrying handguns on their belts and assuming that, being armed and dangerous, they have every right to the area. Hence, I had the be equally grumpy to explain to them that I had an equal right to be there (equal right?

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