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...squat, short, and bloated creature, reminiscent of a turkey crossed with an albatross, stands immobile behind the glass in Harvard’s Natural History Museum. The display’s other extinct birds, such as the puffin-life Great Auk, attest to this one’s rarity. But Harvard’s dodo hides a darker secret.“It’s just a replica made from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from...
...central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, to be the great Indian forest. Said to be the place that inspired Rudyard Kipling to write The Jungle Book, Kanha's bamboo and sal groves are home to tigers, deer, bison, snakes, herons, jackal foxes and many other species of animal and bird. Located away from airports and major train stations, Kanha isn't easy to get to, but few visitors regret making the journey. www.kanhanationalpark.com
...Humans aren't aloneIf you think it's hard to manage the birth-order issues in your family, be thankful you're not an egret or an orange blossom. Egrets are not the intellectual heavyweights of the animal kingdom-or even the bird world-but nature makes them remarkably cunning when it comes to planning their families. Like most other birds, egrets lay multiple eggs, but rather than brooding them all the same way so that the chicks emerge on more or less the same day, the mother begins incubating her first and second eggs before laying the remaining ones...
...Bird's-Eye Brouhaha...
...officials and representatives of the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC). This past summer, three major toy recalls took place as a result of excessive amounts of lead paint and parts: two Mattel recalls of 1.5 million and 9.3 million toys—including Big Bird, Dora the Explorer, and Dora’s cousin, Diego, figures—and an RC2 recall of 1.5 million toys from the Thomas and Friends line. In the past few years, the E.U. has toughened its regulation of companies. Last month, the members of the European parliament proposed...