Tag: Wildlife
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Understanding Python Mating: The Role of Pelvic Spurs
If you ever need a reminder that snakes have a sense of drama, spend a breeding season watching a male python pursue a female twice his size. For all our talk about reptiles being “cold” or “simple,” nothing about their courtship behaviour is either of those things. And recently, inside the Indian Rock Python enclosure…
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Innovative Nesting: Burrowing Behavior of Rose-Ringed Parakeets
If you ever need reminding that birds are far more inventive than we give them credit for, spend some time watching rose-ringed parakeets in a large, mixed aviary. They may look like cheerful green blurs with predictable habits, but beneath that familiar exterior sits a very adaptable little mind. And earlier last year, in the…
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Wildlife Roadkills
You can learn a lot about a landscape by what you flatten on the road. Roadkill is one of those issues everyone agrees is “very sad,” right before they accelerate past the next warning sign at 90 km/h. It’s also vastly underreported, underestimated, and treated as if it were some unavoidable act of nature rather…
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Shared Spaces: Understanding Wildlife Habitats in a Human-Shaped World
Walk through almost any city, village, or farmland long enough and you’ll notice something quietly reassuring: wildlife is everywhere. Not always the glamorous, poster-species wildlife that dominates conservation conversations—but real, resilient wildlife that has learnt to live with us, around us, and sometimes in spite of us. And if you spend enough time watching these…
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Wildlife Rehabilitation: Adhering to a Code of Ethics
A code of ethics is an essential guideline for wildlife rehabilitators, as it sets out the principles and values that should govern their work. The goal of wildlife rehabilitation is to treat and release injured, orphaned, or displaced wildlife back into their natural habitats. However, the process can be complex and challenging, and it is…
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