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Peru! Traveling to Fight Climate Change

Peru! Traveling to Fight Climate Change

September 29, 2018December 23, 2019 Laura Erickson 1 Comment

Every year, two million people from around the world head to Peru specifically to visit Machu Picchu. Some of them want to see South American wildlife and enjoy a wonderful experience at one of the genuine wonders of the world, but their visits don’t require protection of anything outside of this area. Indeed, the sheer […]

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The radical otherness of birds: Jonathan Franzen on why they matter

The radical otherness of birds: Jonathan Franzen on why they matter

April 6, 2018February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

For most of my life, I didn’t pay attention to birds. Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see a golden plover that’s been reported in the neighbourhood, just because it’s a beautiful bird, with […]

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Hummingbirds Use Their Delicate Beaks as Dagger-Like Weapons

Hummingbirds Use Their Delicate Beaks as Dagger-Like Weapons

November 14, 2014January 26, 2022 Supertrooper 3 Comments

The study, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology, focuses on the Long-billed hermit (Phaethornis longirostris) – a large species of hummingbird native to Costa Rica, central Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and western Ecuador. This bird averages 15 cm long and has a mass of 6 grams. It has a very long bill that is more than […]

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Photos: slumbering lions win top photo prize

Photos: slumbering lions win top photo prize

November 5, 2014December 23, 2019 Supertrooper 4 Comments

The king of beasts took this year’s top prize in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, which is co-owned by the Natural History Museum (London) and the BBC. The photo, of female lions and their cubs resting on a rock face in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, was taken by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols, […]

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