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Offbeat News tagged with habitat

Wildlife Detection System Installed Near Sault Ste. Marie
Offbeat  (tags: animals, protection, wildlife detection system, environment, wildlife, habitat )

Cher
- 1 day ago - wawa-news.com
The system continuously monitors the highway travel lanes and shoulders using infrared energy beams. When the sensors are activated by an animal, a flashing beacon automatically warns approaching drivers.
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Buffalo Find New Habitat in Downtown Bartlesville
Offbeat  (tags: painted white buffalos, statues, relocations, habitat, unusual )

Simone
- 1 day ago - bartlesvillelive.com
Once having had free reign throughout Oklahoma and the Plains, now they can only be observed on reserves, grazing on the wild grasses of places like Woolaroc or roaming the rolling hills of Pawhuska's Prairie Grass Reserve.
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Your Morning Adorable: San Diego Zoo's Giant Panda Cub Is Growing Up (and Will Soon Have a Name)
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, pandas, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 2 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The San Diego Zoo reports that its male giant panda cub, born in early August, is "definitely hitting all the panda milestones," making gains in weight (more than a pound in just the last week, for a current total of 11.7 pounds) and length (24.8 inches
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How Do We Get Rid of a Persistent Magpie?
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, birds, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 3 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
We have attracted the interest of a rather unwelcome visitor, a persistent magpie who has decided that he - or she - rather likes our balcony.
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Sabertoothed Males Were Pussycats
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, sabertoothed cats, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 3 days ago - dukenews.duke.edu
Despite their fearsome fangs, male sabertoothed cats may have been less aggressive than many of their feline cousins, says a new study of male-female size differences in extinct big cats.
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Elvis the Otter Shows Off Tricks
Offbeat  (tags: animals, otters, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 6 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Elvis the otter has learned to earn his supper by performing tricks on the Scottish Island of Mull.
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Earth Picture Galleries
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, photos, environment, habitat, wildlife, protection )

Cher
- 10 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Animal pictures of the week: 30 October 2009
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Cat Survives Fall of Six Storeys
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, pets, protection )

Cher
- 10 days ago - nzherald.co.nz
A pet cat escaped with only three broken teeth and a fractured jaw after falling six storeys from an apartment balcony on Auckland's viaduct.
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PETA Protests Oregon Wildlife Park's Car-Washing Elephants
Offbeat  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, elephants, car wash, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 10 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
The car-washing elephants at an Oregon wildlife park don't really get your car very clean -- but that's not the reason PETA wants the park to stop using them.
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#8 Barcelona, Spain: Great Bicycle City Photo Tour
Offbeat  (tags: environment, protection, nature, habitat, bicycle cities, Spain )

Cher
- 17 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Naked bicyclists, folding bikes, balloon bikes, and more -- enjoy this bicycle photo tour of Barcelona.
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Earth Picture Galleries : Animal Pictures of the Week: 23 October 2009
Offbeat  (tags: animals, photos, environment, protection, habitat, wildlife )

Cher
- 17 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A special Halloween-themed edition of our popular animal gallery
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Largest Web-Spinning Spider on Record Found in South Africa
Offbeat  (tags: animals, environment, habitat, unusual, spider )

Sigrid
- 18 days ago - timesonline.co.uk
A spider larger than any other web-spinning species on record has been found in South Africa. The species Nephila komaci is a member of the golden orb weaver family, and was identified as a new species after being found in a nature reserve.
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Photo Tours of 10 Great Bicycle Cities: #10 Basel, Switzerland
Offbeat  (tags: cities, bicycles, environment, habitat, protection, photo tours )

Cher
- 19 days ago - ecoworldly.com
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this series of photo tours is going to be worth about a hundred thousand.
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Amazing Bed-Fellows as Kestrels and Barn Owls Share a Nest
Offbeat  (tags: animals, birds, environment, wildlife, protection, habitat )

Cher
- 22 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
At the time of year when the RSPB is urging people to put up nest boxes ready for next spring, a surprising number of unusual shared occupancies have come to light.
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