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Did Someone Say “Tsunami”?
On December 29, 2004, elephants in Sri Lanka giving rides to tourists began trumpeting and acting agitated. Chains were broken, and the beasts ran for the hills. They weren’t the only ones acting peculiar that day. In nearby Yala National Park, monkeys and birds had been acting odd all day, turning their noses up at…
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Birding in The Burbs
After flipping through a birding field guide we got for a family member, one of us had some present envy and/or technology curiousity, and discovered an app for smartphones called iBirdPro. The advantage of this app over a field guide is that in addtion to pictures and information about the birds, the app plays their…