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What have racing cyclists and American Black Vultures got in common?

Posted: March 28th 2009 09:13. Last modified: March 28th 2009 09:18

Urohydrosis.

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Categories: Birds, Les bourgeois, Vehicles

Photos of pet dogs trying to eat a live vulture

Posted: January 19th 2009 11:04.

I can’t see the moral difference between this and when your cat brings in a vole, but someone is outraged.

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Categories: Birds, Flocks and work animals, Les bourgeois, Splog

Spanish vultures snacking in Holland

Posted: June 19th 2007 11:04. Last modified: April 24th 2009 17:26

The crazy European regulation making it illegal to leave carcasses in the high mountains has led to reports of starving vultures attacking and killing large live stock in several parts of Spain. Now one of Nick’s wolfmen has sent news of several hundred griffon vultures from the Pyrenees having sought alimentary asylum in Holland, in [...]

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Categories: Flocks and work animals, Food, Les bourgeois, Wild beasts

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  • March 22 1460 El príncipe de Viana alcanza por primera vez el perdon de su padre, y se viene de Mallorca á Barcelona.
  • March 22 1848 

    En obsequio del beato José Oriol, cuyo fiesta se celebra mañana en la parroquia de Ntra. Sra. del Pino, se cantan en la misma iglesia solemnes maitines á las 4 y media de la tarde de hoy.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 22 de març de 1919 Alta cultura. Les coses, és clar, haurien pogut ésser diferents… En acabar el batxillerat, la meva intenció no fou pas d’estudiar per advocat. M’hauria agradat més d’estudiar química, i per tal de servir el que jo creia que era la meva vocació, vaig matricular-me al preparatori de Ciències. Matricular-se! Prenguin nota de la parauleta! El [...]

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