endangered species
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The Scientists Who Brave Angry Hawk Parents, Wasps And 80-Foot-Falls To Save Endangered Chicks
Life is hard for Ridgway’s hawks, a species found only in a small sliver of habitat on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. Once found all over the island, the hawks have steadily declined due to local humans killing them and clearing their forest habitat. If that weren’t enough, their chicks are threatened by botflies, whose…
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Drunk Pigeon Is All Of Us (As Well As New Zealand’s Bird Of The Year)
New Zealand has some weird birds, and they know it. Sure, you’ve probably seen the Seussian kiwi, but what about the kākāpo, a flightless parrot that looks like a particularly friendly owl? Have you heard of the morepork, an owl so named because it sounds like it shouts “MORE PORK,” or the wrybill, the only…
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Oh My God, Check Out This Amazing Baby Gorilla
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo celebrated the birth of a male baby western lowland gorilla this week – the first time in nine years that staff at the zoo have managed to get the critically endangered species to breed in captivity, the institution wrote in a blog post.
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Africa’s Elusive Forest Elephants Are Being Poached At A Staggering Rate
The population of forest elephants in Gabon’s Minkébé National Park — one of Central Africa’s largest and most important nature preserves — has declined by a whopping 81.5 per cent since 2004 due to poaching. It’s considered a major setback for the preservation of this endangered species, of which less than 100,000 remain in the…