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• Death of hundreds of baby right whales continues to puzzle scientists

  
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  Scientists still dont know why hundreds of baby southern right whales are turning up dead around Patagonia, a decade after observers first saw signs of the worst die-off on record for the species.
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• Hare Watching

  
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  Wild snowshoe hares are frequently seen in the yard.  They’re present year-round, but most visible during the spring and summer months. Watching a hare through the window We often watch them through the window as they munch on the lawn or rest under the trees. Snowshoe hare resting under fir trees next ...
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• Antelope Island Jack Rabbit

  
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  Steve Creek Outdoors Steve Creek Outdoors - Wildlife And Nature Photography By Steve Creek I did see a lot of Jack Rabbits while I was visiting Antelope Island State Park but I just couldn’t get a good photograph of one. I don’t have a good excuse for why I didn’t. They were close to the road and they would ...
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• Welcome Back Charlie!

  
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  The critter that pushed the envelope in otter behavior is back in Long Beach. Charlie the Sea Otter is famous amongst zoological institutions. He was the first sea otter trained to give a voluntary blood sample. For the past couple of years Charlie was up north ...
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• Killer Whales Playing? The Animal Video of the Day!!!

  
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  Were generally familiar with these large animals due to Shamu and Sea World .  Few people consider what it would be like to run into a pod of orcas in the wild.  And even fewer would think about how they would play in the wake of a boat...
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• Returning to the wild!

  
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  It’s a very exciting time in Vietnam! After being confiscated from the wildlife trade in 2010, the first of the Sunda pangolins held at the Carnivore and Pangolins Conservation Program (CPCP) has been released into Cat Tien National Park. EDGE Fellow Phuong, tells us more… As you will remember, my EDGE ...
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• EPISODE 256 – one million people laughing at your cock

  
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  Hello listeners, We know some of you like to listen to the podcast with your little children, so just to warn you, Answer Me This! Episode 256 contains some bawdy-talk. But by all means go ahead and listen if you’re happy to field such subsequent questions from your progeny as, “Mummy, what’s a sex ...
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• Pierce Brosnan Leads Charge to Save Whales from Sonar and Explosives

  
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  Written by Frances Beinecke, President, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) The U.S. Navy has announced new plans for training and testing with sonar and explosives — plans that spell disaster for whales. If the Navy proceeds, more than 1,000 whales and other marine mammals — including rare and endangered ...
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• Are seagulls killing whales in Patagonia?

  
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  It sounds ludicrous, but it could just be true: scientists say seagulls may be responsible for hundreds of southern right whale moralities off the Argentine coastline. Since 2003, scientists have documented the deaths of 605 southern right whales ( Eubalaena australis ) near Península Valdés which the whales use as ...
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• Antelope Island Bison

  
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  Steve Creek Outdoors Steve Creek Outdoors - Wildlife And Nature Photography By Steve Creek I saw a lot of Bison while visiting Antelope Island State Park in Utah. I usually don’t make a lot of photos of these animals because they don’t do much when I see them. I do keep an eye out and have my camera ready when ...
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• Oblivious sauropods being eaten, part 2: Bakker’s snoozing brontosaur

  
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  From The Dinosaur Heresies . Part 1 .
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• 17 poachers allegedly enter elephant stronghold in Congo, conservationists fear massacre

  
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  Local researchers and wildlife guards say 17 armed elephant poachers have gained access to Dzanga Bai, a large waterhole and clearing where up to 200 forest elephants visit daily in the Central African Republic (CAR)s Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. WWF, which works in the region but has recently evacuated due to rising ...
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• Sexual Wiring of Womens Breasts

  
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  If men have sex on the brain, they are not alone. Recent research found that women’s sensory cortex has three distinct areas corresponding to stimulation of the clitoris, vagina, and cervix (1). To their surprise, researchers found that self stimulation of the nipples lights up the same areas. This sheds further ...
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• A Tale of Two Elephants: celebrating the lives and mourning the deaths of Cirrocumulus and Ngampit

  
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  On March 21st, the organization Save the Elephants posted on their Facebook page that two African elephants had been poached inside a nearby reserve: "Sad news from the north of Kenya. Usually the national reserves are safe havens for elephants, and they know it. But in the last two weeks two of our study animals have ...
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• Gray whale specimen an important addition to Natural History Museum collections

  
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  Rope, golf balls, sweat pants, bottles and aluminum cans are a few of the discarded items biologist Matt Klope says he has found inside the stomachs of the dead whales he has helped necropsy over the years in and around Puget Sound, Washington. A necropsy is a common procedure done to determine an animal’s cause of ...
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• Munching on marine plastic kills sperm whale

  
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  What do childrens toys, balloons, mattresses and plastic bags have in common? They can, along with more non-biodegradable pollutants, be found in the belly of a sperm whale, the topic of a new study in the Marine Pollution Bulletin. The same whale that swallowed Jonah from the Bible, Geppetto from Collodis Pinocchio ...
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• Mammals Through the KT Extinction

  
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  Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling Author: 1. Gregory P. Wilson (a) Affiliations: a. Department of Biology and Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, 24 Kincaid ...
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• Coyotes At Antelope Island

  
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  I wasn’t expecting to get an up close look at the Coyotes while I was visiting Antelope Island State Park but I got lucky and was able to see a few. I even was able to photograph a pair hunting together. These Coyotes were busy hunting and didn’t seem to care much about the humans that were on the roads nearby. I ...
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• Beautiful Andalucia in Spain….this is a common sight in...

  
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  Beautiful Andalucia in Spain….this is a common sight in this area at this time of the year. Very lush and green after the recent rainfalls here. It is warming up fast here now….. www.andrewlever.com
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• First Multituberculate Fossil Found in India

  
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  The first multituberculate mammal from India Authors: 1. Varun Parmar (a) 2. Guntupalli V. R. Prasad (b) 3. Deepak Kumar (a) Affiliations: a. Department of Geology, University of Jammu, Jammu 180006, India b. Department of Geology, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India ...
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