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1 Cashless and flightless, Russian tourists stuck in Thailand

BANGKOK--Thousands of Russian tourists are stranded in Thailand's beach resorts because of the war in Ukraine, many unable to pay their bills or return home because of sanctions and canceled flights. The crisis in Europe also put a crimp in recovery plans for the Southeast Asian nation’s tourism industry, which has hosted more visitors from Russia than any of its neighbors before the pandemic hit. There are about 6, 500 Russian tourists stuck in Phuket, Surat Thani, Krabi and Pattaya, four provi

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数据源：ABC新闻-商业新闻

2022-03-12 00:00:00.0

2 When Insects Lost Their Homes, Evolution Clipped Their Wings

insects on islands have a curious tendency to be flightless, perhaps because flying is dangerous

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2021-08-11 00:00:00.0

3 Galapagos volcano eruption spews lava on uninhabited island, photos show

home to a host of diverse species, like penguins and flightless cormorants....

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数据源：福克斯新闻-世界

2020-01-17 00:00:00.0

4 Colorado deputy wrangles escaped emu wandering roadway, bodycam video shows

, wrangled an emu named Buddy after the flightless bird escaped his owner and was found wandering a road

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数据源：福克斯新闻-美国

2024-03-07 00:00:00.0

5 New Zealand Held a Contest for Bird of the Year. The Birds Lost.

slipped more than 1, 500 fake votes into an election database, sending one flightless bird to the top

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2021-11-01 00:00:00.0

6 Reality Show Contestant Apologizes After Eating Protected Bird

protected species during filming last October. The weka, a flightless bird known for its bold

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2024-07-23 00:00:00.0

7 New Zealand’s Biodiversity Crisis Prompts Extreme Measures

only in recent centuries. Many of its most iconic native creatures are flightless.... As a result

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2022-06-05 00:00:00.0

8 New Zealand held a contest for bird of the year. The birds lost.

votes into an election database, sending one flightless bird to the top. But this year’s result was

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数据源：芝加哥论坛报-国家与世界

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2021-11-01 00:00:00.0

9 American reality show contestant kills, eats protected bird in New Zealand

flightless bird that is protected in mainland New Zealand, an offense that can lead to up to two years in

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数据源：华盛顿邮报-世界

2024-07-24 00:00:00.0

10 The Kiwi Makes a Startling but Careful Comeback

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau.... Kahu and several volunteers extracted a bird from its burrow in the rotting trunk beneath me.“ One leg, two legs — got it, ” Dave Laithwaite, a volunteer at the sanctuary, said while groping around in the mud in the kiwi’s narrow den.... He pulled the writhing bird out, then calmed it by cradling it like a baby. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT The kiwi, New Zealand’s national bird, has seen a resurgence in numbers thanks

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2024-05-17 00:00:00.0

11 Archaeologists stunned by ancient human practice of raising deadly birds: 'Could kill you'

The Stone Age began about 2.6 million years ago.... This is the point that ancient humans began using stone tools — or at least that's what the evidence suggests.... The period was a lengthy and formative one for the world’s ancestors, and lasted until about 3330 BC.It was after this point that the Bronze Age began, and slowly, surely, modernity crept up on the horizon. While we know a significant amount about ancient humans, it is difficult, often impossible, to gauge minute details about the

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数据源：每日快报-科学

2021-12-06 00:00:00.0

12 Archaeology breakthrough after ancient human study: 'Implications enormous!'

Humans began using tools to transform the way in which they interacted with the world around 2.6 million years ago.... It marked the beginning of the Stone Age: an era which saw the acceleration of evolution of the hominin？... members of the biological ‘family’ Hominidae, the only species which still lives today being homo sapiens( humans)....

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数据源：每日快报-科学

2021-12-12 00:00:00.0

13 Who Would Rig This Vote? The Fraud Was Real (and Feathers Were Ruffled)

The voter fraud, perpetrated on Monday in New Zealand, was real.... “ I’m not sure what kind of person could do it, but I like to assume that it’s somebody who just really loved native birds.” No one has claimed responsibility, and no one is expected to. The contest, which began on Nov.... Its 1, 900 or so remaining members live on Kapiti Island, a bird sanctuary off the coast of the country’s North Island....

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数据源：纽约时报-亚洲新闻

2020-11-10 00:00:00.0

14 Royal Navy's mission in 'one of most remote places on Earth' to pick up penguin populations

The Royal Navy has made a" hazardous" trip to" one of the most remote places on earth" to help scientists study shrinking penguin populations. Research ship HMS Protector is studying colonies of the birds in the South Sandwich Islands – so off the beaten track even the Royal Navy only calls in once a decade. Described by the Royal Navy as “ one of the most remote places on earth, ” the chain of islands lie more than 1, 300 miles east of the Falklands and are home to around three million of the f

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数据源：每日电讯报-英国新闻

2021-12-27 00:00:00.0

15 Victory for bat in New Zealand’s bird of the year competition upsets some twitchers | The Independent

But it was a hearty victory for the species that has recently seen bad publicity after being linked to the origin of coronavirus pandemic.... As many as 7, 000 people voted to rank the bat as their favourite amongst the country’s 200-odd native species through an online poll.... The long-tailed bird or pekapeka-tou-roa is one of the species of two bats in the country and it is one of the rarest mammals in the world....

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数据源：独立报-世界新闻

2021-11-01 00:00:00.0

16 Mosque sheltering 80 people in Ukrainian city of Mariupol shelled by Russian forces, Ukraine says | The Independent

“ More than 80 adults and children are hiding there from the shelling, including citizens of Turkey.” Recommended Ukraine news live: Claims Putin preparing terror attack on Chernobyl Why has Russia invaded Ukraine?... More than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine amid the conflict. The United Nations has pegged the figure of Ukrainian civilian deaths at more than 500, but Ukraine said the toll is in the thousands.... Thousands of soldiers on both sides have died....

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数据源：独立报-世界新闻

2022-03-12 00:00:00.0

17 New Zealand birds: Takahe facing extinction find new home in sanctuary

They grow up to the size of a large hen and can weigh as much as 3kg( 6. 6lb).... New Zealand's native birds evolved before the ascent of mammals and are vulnerable to predation by land predators introduced by human settlers.... It has marked the North Island takahe as extinct. Related Topics Endangered species Asia New Zealand More on this story Was this the heaviest ever animal on Earth?...

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数据源：英国广播公司-亚洲新闻

2023-08-29 00:00:00.0

18 New Zealand birds: Takahe facing extinction find new home in sanctuary

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数据源：英国广播公司-亚洲新闻

2023-08-29 00:00:00.0

19 New Zealand birds: Takahe facing extinction find new home in sanctuary

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数据源：英国广播公司-亚洲新闻

2023-08-29 00:00:00.0

20 New Zealand birds: Takahe facing extinction find new home in sanctuary

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数据源：英国广播公司-亚洲新闻

2023-08-29 00:00:00.0