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• When in Drought – The Roseate Spoonbill

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on September 10th, 2012 I could be a meteorologist in Florida. In May the weather forecast is a chance of rain through November. The rainy season coincides with the tropical storm season. A nice afternoon rain shower is par for the course on any given day. Lake Trafford is [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at November 11, 2012, 3:09pm in Environment

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• iPed Shuffle – The Southern Stingray

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  Originally published on Audubon Guides on July 30th, 2012 From May through October, anyone heading into Florida’s coastal waters is encouraged to do the “stingray shuffle”. This Frankenstein’s monster-like gait stirs the underwater sediments and frightens the bottom dwelling rays into taking off. No doubt this aquatic march is a Sand Dollar’s (Echinarachnius parma) worst [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at October 28, 2012, 2:24pm in Environment

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• Firsthand account of cruel tiger cub “encounters”

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  Recently a private zoo in Pasco County called Dade City’s Wild Things has received a lot of media attention, including appearances on Fox & Friends and Good Morning America, for “pool parties” featuring tiger cubs. At Dade City’s Wild Things, baby tigers, monkeys and other animals are shoved into the [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at October 18, 2012, 6:03pm in Environment

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• Can we afford the future?

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  Two New York Times reports this week attempt to divine how our society will be able to afford the future. First, addressing the rising cost of healthcare: “The critical point here is that because politicians do not understand the mechanism and nature of the cost disease, and because they face political pressures from [...]
  From Mike Poller's Backlash Blog at October 07, 2012, 11:35am in Environment, Politics

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• Mourning Ivan the gorilla, thinking of King

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  On August 20, Ivan the gorilla died peacefully at Zoo Atlanta. He was 50 years old.

  Longtime ARFF supporters will remember the campaign that was launched in 1997 to persuade Miami’s Monkey Jungle to send a gorilla named King to Zoo Atlanta, where he could be with other gorillas. During [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at August 28, 2012, 6:06pm in Environment

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• Great Lengths - The Green Heron

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  As I ride my bike back to my house, I have one hand on the handle bars and one delicately cradling a Green Heron (Butorides virescens) that is thankfully behaving. The bird is beautiful with deep green plumage on its head and back, rusty-colored feathers around the neck, a long pointed beak and a [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at July 29, 2012, 7:00am in Environment

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• Pacific Piracy - The Magnificent Frigatebird

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  © Pete Corradino To take from others that which is not yours would seem an easy way to acquire any number of things. Treasure comes to mind. Regurgitated squid as well. As long as men have sailed the oceans there have been pirates plundering the belongings of others and as long as birds have [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at July 23, 2012, 7:00am in Environment

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• Piccadilly Circus: “the WORST circus I ever attended!”

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  This week the Piccadilly Circus arrived in Florida with ponies, a couple llamas, and Judy, an Asian elephant owned by Harry “Bones” Craig (Bell, Florida).

  ARFF filmed Judy before a performance at War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale on Monday. Click here to watch the video. The swaying that you [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at July 18, 2012, 7:53pm in Environment

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• Hendry County monkey farm

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  In response to a request for records related to PreLabs, a Chicago-based contract research organization, Hendry County has provided ARFF with a copy of notes from a June 14 Planning and Zoning Department meeting about a proposed “nonhuman primate breeding facility” to be constructed on four plots of land off [...]

  From News for Florida animal advocates at July 14, 2012, 3:50pm in Environment

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• Verdant Vulture - The Turkey Vulture

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  I offer you a green Turkey Vulture. The photo is real and untouched. I took it. I do apologize that it has the same blurred quality to it that most of the photos of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster have. A canal full of alligators separated me and the emerald-feathered bird and a [...]
  From Jungle Pete's Earthbound at July 05, 2012, 9:02pm in Environment

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