Its vocabulary of movement includes mock combat techniques, stylized gaits of birds and animals and movements modelled on the chores of village housewives.
These lame ducks have a unique opportunity to improve the health of our communities and our planet for humans, birds and animals by curbing carbon emissions.
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Environmental experts say birds and animals are more likely to escape a burning patch of water than an oil slick, although toxic fumes could endanger wildlife.
The salt marsh provides a habitat for wading birds and other animals and plants.
The pan-African Great Green African Wall (GGW), a lush strips of vegetation capable of supporting birds and other animals, would stretch from Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in the east to Dakar, Senegal in the west on the southern edge of the Sahara.
The problem will be worsened by global warming affecting the population balance of animal predators such as owls, snakes, birds and bats, animals that keep insects and rodents in check.
The centre opened in 1993 as a place to rescue and care for rare birds of prey and exotic animals.
With Ms Brummer, there are 27 volunteers who help injured and orphaned wild animals and birds, nurturing them back to health and then releasing them back into the wild.
The woman's blouse is a purple-striped white cloth embroidered with flamboyant images of birds, animals and flowers.
She married a prince in a fairy tale ceremony that was really only missing the chipper cartoon birds and little forest animals.
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Many of the birds, fish and animals that consume this water, depending on the amount of hazardous chemicals leaked into the pond or stream they drink from, will die quickly or slowly.
Organizers say they'll start to accept cats and smaller animals such as hamsters, birds and fish into the shelter.
The exceptions, such as hoofed animals and birds have all descended from five-fingered ancestors.
However, animals and birds are elusive, and children do not usually have the patience or endurance to find them -- unless you know exactly where to look.
They concluded that such upwellings might indeed account for the catastrophic fish deaths, but that they would not explain the deaths of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, since these animals breathe air rather than relying on dissolved oxygen.
The greatest of these is that, as fiery and horrible as the impact would have been, the survivors included many seemingly sensitive animals like birds, frogs and turtles.
Patterns of species diversity are biased: they are based on the species we know about, which tend to be large, visible animals like butterflies, birds and mammals.
Huibers has filled his ark, which will operate as a "Bible museum, " with life-sized plastic animals and an aviary of live birds to give visitors more to interact with.
While few would go to the lengths of the ancient Egyptians, whose desert cemeteries include several thousand animals and at least 2m mummified birds in the catacombs of the sacred ibises, the modern burial ritual is still an elaborate affair.
Some of the threats included grazing animals, which destroyed the birds' habitat, and mosquitoes that carried avian malaria.
The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
It has been known for years that in a range of animals from insects to birds the males increase the quality and quantity of the sperm they ejaculate when those sperm are likely to find themselves in competition with sperm from another male.
As a lonely child in Brooklyn, Dr Pepperberg owned pet birds from the age of four, and daydreamed about being able to understand animals' thoughts.
Past tests of the degree to which animals other than people can delay their gratification have focused on birds and monkeys.
Hoenig, the Maine state veterinarian, said the allegations included keeping too many birds in cases, failing to treat injured chickens or promptly remove dead animals, and improper euthanization.
St Francis of Assisi is said to have loved animals as his "brothers and sisters" and even to have preached to birds.
But officials feared from the start that the number of imported animals - and the fact that the virus could be carried on the wind or by birds - meant that an outbreak would be difficult to avoid.
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