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Category: Cat
Lions, lions, lions. And more lions.
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Category: Cat
Lions, lions, lions. And more lions.
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Category: Books
"Carnivores of the World" is a mind blower and a beautiful book.
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Category: Animal Attacks
Animals eating1 people has always been an interest of mine, and bear attacks are among my favorite. As you know, I've got a few of my own stories, though I don 't know if I ever told this one. There were two of us canoe-camping...
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Category: Film review
I didn't want to watch Grizzly Man, but then I did watch it, and now, I want you to watch it.
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Category: Carnivora
Cuddly Cub Polar Bear Knut has died unexpectedly, at the age of four. The cause of death is unknown but speculation abounds. In memoriam, please remain silent for a moment while we play the Knut Song:...
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Category: Landscape
This is the most challenging time of year for duck watching. But it may be easier than one thinks to bump into a wolf in the forest....
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Category: Behavioral Biology
Even a basic and widespread mammalian trait is shaped by experience. This should calibrate one's thinking when it comes to assertions that different groups of humans have genetically determined differences in ability.
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Category: Mammals
As you know, I have a long standing interest in dogs and bears and in the topic of animals eating people. (SEE UPDATE AT END OF POST)...
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Category: Carnivora
I have about ten favorite species of tree, and one of them is the corotú. Why? Because of one of the most interesting plant-animal interaction stories of recent times. The story, complete with extinct elephant-like creatures and a real Sherlock Holmes science theme can be...
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Category: Cat
Although the paper addresses Tanzanian lions, this is a photograph of a Namibian lion Starting some years ago, we began to hear about revisions of the standard models of lion behavioral biology coming out of Craig Packer's research in the Serengeti. One of the...
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