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lab tattoo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/monkey-stereotaxic-full.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Stereotactic halo used on 6 macaques inside University of Floria.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-17T00:09:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/15/if-youre-really-saddened-by-the-death-of-marius-the-giraffe-stop-visiting-zoos/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/an37096504files-picturet.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AN37096504FILES+-+Picture+t</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-16T07:07:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/15/contraptions-will-follow/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/91004007.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Down East Fork Mink Creek. Bannock Mountains. May. (Photo: Ralph Maughan)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-16T02:01:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/13/all-eyes-will-turn-towards-china-when-the-wildlife-summit-starts-tomorrow/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ivory.png</image:loc><image:title>ivory</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-13T15:39:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/11/palau-to-ban-commercial-fishing-and-creates-sanctuary-roughly-the-size-of-france/</loc><lastmod>2014-02-11T16:58:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/10/chimp-kingdom/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/chimps-democratic-republic-of-congo-video-clip-lukuru-foundation.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Bili-Uele forest, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Lukuru Foundation)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-10T22:00:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/09/friends-in-unlikely-places/</loc><lastmod>2014-02-09T19:08:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/09/stop-hunting-giraffes-for-sport/</loc><lastmod>2014-02-09T19:01:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/02/07/panthera-pardus-saxicolor/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/img19575726.jpg</image:loc><image:caption> Leopard killed in an automobile accident in Sefidkooh protected area near Khorramabad. 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Sinabung. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-07T19:58:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/31/lunacy-in-shark-territory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/878397-b3b45d0e-6154-11e3-bb71-e2c853748ae0.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Great White, Australia.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-02-01T10:18:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/31/merck-to-end-chimpanzee-research-joining-2-dozens-of-companies-good/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-31T17:12:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/29/zimbabwe-govt-bans-major-conservation-ngo-access-to-their-national-parks/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-29T17:43:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/27/the-worlds-biggest-marine-park-built-in-china-with-orcas-taken-from-the-wild/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-28T06:47:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/26/sumatrans-the-forgotten-rhino/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-26T19:40:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/23/new-species-of-river-dolphins-found-in-brazil/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-24T06:56:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/22/murmuration/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-24T07:18:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/22/poverty-and-unemployment-the-root-cause-of-rhino-horn-poaching/</loc><lastmod>2014-01-22T15:20:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2014/01/20/symptoms-consistent-with/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/4dea65afe6d21247.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Research study, Barataria Bay, August 15, 2011. 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(Photo: PETA)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-08T15:39:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/12/03/okapia-johnstoni/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/dead_okapibody.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>15 okapi among the victims killed in raid on the Epulu Breeding and Research Station, Democratic Republic of Congo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/okapi-in-forest.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Okapi in the forest in DR Congo.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2017-10-04T21:44:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/12/02/personhood/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ku-xlarge.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>(Photo: Nonhuman Rights Project)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/kiko_thumb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>kiko_thumb</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-12-04T06:58:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/12/01/goddamnit-it-never-ends-greenpeace-has-photos-of-illegal-rainforest-destruction-by-bumitama-ltd/</loc><lastmod>2013-12-01T19:43:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/12/01/insightful-inspirational-quotes-about-animal-rights/</loc><lastmod>2013-12-01T19:39:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/11/04/walmartcruelty-com/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pig-farm3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>(Photo: Mercy for Animals)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pig-farm21.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>(Photo: Mercy for Animals)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/animal-rights-activists-winning-war-8820422-87.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Gestation crates.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-04T23:25:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/11/01/profiteering-ivory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/movenpick-hotels-ivory-shop.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Movenpick hotel ivory shop, Saudi Arabia.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-04T21:20:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/30/chimps-choose-their-friends-like-us/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tushic-jorg-massen102813_thumb.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>(Photo: Tushic-Jorg-Massen)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-30T07:40:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/28/sorry-but-wolf-slaughter-is-not-american-by-james-william-gibson/</loc><lastmod>2013-10-28T17:04:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/27/red-wolves-and-coyotes-under-the-gun/</loc><lastmod>2013-10-27T16:54:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/25/amur-falcon-success/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/th_1bbe11339d565dd40936ef5c626c68e6_1352209032verticalcampaign.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Last year. 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and the importance of protecting nature. (Photo: Yuri Pator)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2025-06-13T20:40:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/24/killing-dolphins-for-shark-bait/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/dolphins-005.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2013-10-27T18:51:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/10/21/saving-chimps-at-gombe/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jg3-chimp-w-s.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jane-goodall-gombe-1960s.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jane Goodall, Gombe 1960s</image:title><image:caption>Jane Goodall, Gombe 1960. 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penguin</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-04-03T02:45:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/31/5640/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-31T16:26:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/31/5639/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-31T16:16:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/31/5638/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-31T16:07:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/31/5637/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-31T16:06:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/29/one-monkey-at-a-time/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/macaques-wildlife-national-park-n10.jpg</image:loc><image:title>macaques-wildlife-national-park-n10</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/long-tailed-macaques.jpg</image:loc><image:title>long-tailed macaques</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-04-01T10:52:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/28/cites-fail/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sos_elephants_mars_2013_-2-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SOS_Elephants_Mars_2013_.2.568</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/cameroonelephant2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>???????????????????????????????</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-04-01T16:53:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/14/golden-eye/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/andagoldeneyefromwinte2012w.jpg</image:loc><image:title>andagoldeneyefromwinte2012W</image:title><image:caption>The Daily Coyote</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-27T05:26:13+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/26/show-biz-animal-care/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hboluck1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HBOLuck1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/luck_a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>luck_a</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T22:57:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/22/another-step-closer-to-sanctuary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/23chimp-1-articlelarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>23chimp-1-articleLarge</image:title><image:caption>Chimpanzees at Chimp Haven. (Photo: Lee Celano/NYT)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/rr_logo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rr_LOGO</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:37:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/25/dead-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/or16nov12012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OR16Nov12012</image:title><image:caption>OR-16 after being radio-collared near Elgin, Oregon in November 2012. (Photo: ODFW)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:37:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/26/140-tigers-in-the-freezer/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tiger-farm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tiger farm</image:title><image:caption>Tiger farm.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/chinese-tiger-breeding-park2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chinese tiger breeding park.</image:title><image:caption>Dong Bei Hu Siberian Tiger Park.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dong-bei-hu-siberian-tiger-park.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dong Bei Hu.</image:title><image:caption>Dong Bei Hu Siberian Tiger Park outside Harbin, northeastern China, gives visitors the chance to view captivity-bred tigers close up. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/chinese-tiger-breeding-park4_2.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Xiongsen tiger breeding park.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/chinese-tiger-breeding-park3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Xiongsen tiger breeding park.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/srirachia-tiger-zoo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Srirachia TIger Zoo</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:36:16+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/02/operation-hirola/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/prd_032544.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Hirola and his white "spectacles." 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</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:35:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/04/oil-spill-fallout-continues/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:34:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/09/the-ivory-trade/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/qumquat-and-quanza.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Qumquat and Quanza</image:title><image:caption>Qumquat and Quanza.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:33:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/12/kudos-united/</loc><lastmod>2013-06-03T20:52:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/13/you-break-it-you-buy-it/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/4700293367_760753413c_b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gulf of Mexico</image:title><image:caption>Oiled sargassum in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010. [Photo: NOAA]</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-07-03T19:26:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/17/5019/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:30:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/21/wild/</loc><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:29:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/17/blockade/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/japanese-whaling-799169.jpg</image:loc><image:title>japanese-whaling-799169</image:title><image:caption>Japanese-whaling.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/whaling_in_the_faroe_islands-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>whaling_in_the_faroe_islands (1)</image:title><image:caption>Japanese whaling in Faroe Islands.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/whaling_1656912c.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Japanese Whaling catch.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/japan-whaling-2008.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Adult minke whale and her calf being towed up the ramp of a Japanese factory processing ship in Antarctic waters in February 2008. (Photo: Australian Customs)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/article-1137281-0351220b000005dc-637_634x432.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Japanese crew from the harpoon vessel blast the protesters with water cannon while watched by the Steve Irwin's helicopter</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/article-1137281-03511f7f000005dc-422_634x417.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>(circa 2008) A helicopter from the protesters' ship hovers over the Japanese factory whaling ship the Nisshin Maru as it hauls a minke whale up its slipway. Meanwhile the Yushin Maru No. 2 sails close behind to protect the catch.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/japanese-whalers-and-sea-007.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Japanese-whalers-and-Sea--007</image:title><image:caption>Japanese whaling ship No 3 Yushin Maru (left) and the Sea Shepherd's vessel Bob Barker collide last year. (Photo: AP)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/4523248-3x2-700x467.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Japanese whaling vessel with carcass of a minke whale (Photo: Sea Shepherd)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:27:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/20/the-experiment/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/monkey-deprivation-tests-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>monkey-deprivation-tests-2</image:title><image:caption>When challenged about the value of his work, Harlow stated: “The only thing I care about is whether a monkey will turn out a property I can publish. I don't have any love for them. I never have. I don't really like animals. I despise cats. I hate dogs.”</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/monkey-deprivation-tests-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>monkey-deprivation-tests-3</image:title><image:caption>Harlow “discovered” that infants removed from their mothers quickly developed abnormal behaviors.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/page_monkey2_w350_h395.jpg</image:loc><image:title>page_monkey2_w350_h395</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/isolateposture.jpg</image:loc><image:title>isolateposture</image:title><image:caption>Well of Despair (top removed).</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-07T14:46:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/21/another-red-wolf-lost/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/front.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Male red wolf (Photo: B. Bartel/USFWS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-26T21:26:29+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/22/armenian-leopard/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/irans-oldest-leopard-560x3811.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Irans-Oldest-Leopard-560x381</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/irans-oldest-leopard-560x381.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Irans-Oldest-Leopard-560x381</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bezoars-fpwc-armenia-vl.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bezoars-fpwc-armenia-vl</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/armenia-caucasus-wildlife-refuge.gif</image:loc><image:title>armenia-caucasus-wildlife-refuge</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/view-over-fpwc-caucasus-wildlife-refuge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>view-over-fpwc-caucasus-wildlife-refuge</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/caucasus-summertime-fpwc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>caucasus-summertime-fpwc</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/caucasian-leopard-misad-dreamtime.jpg</image:loc><image:title>caucasian-leopard-misad-dreamtime</image:title><image:caption>Caucasian/Persian leopard. IUCN Red List status: Endangered. 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pigeon</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-09T02:06:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/04/steel-bridge-with-bunnies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/img_3682.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_3682</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-03-04T20:53:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/03/03/double-trouble/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/uwisc4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>UWisc4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/uwisc6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>UWisc6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/uwisc2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>UWisc2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2021-10-04T14:15:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/26/investigation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sw-livestock-auction-nm.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SW 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NM</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer5</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer4</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer3</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer.2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nmkillbuyer-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NMkillbuyer.1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-27T22:58:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/23/chimp-haven/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chimphaven-tracy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ChimpHaven Tracy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chimphaven-valentina-playing-w-mom.jpg</image:loc></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/chimp1_106261-99f1253c799cd5daae5734c6657dde2cb07cf9d7-s4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>chimp1_106261</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-23T22:01:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/22/helping-primates/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ippl1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL1</image:title><image:caption>An IPPL-supported campaign by Fundacion Entropika resulted in a ban on the Colombian night monkey trade this summer. (see ANIMAL POST “Night Monkeys” August 28)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ippl3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL</image:title><image:caption>The staff (and baboons) at C.A.R.E. thank everyone who contributed to IPPL’s campaign for emergency assistance.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ippl4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL4</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-21T05:19:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/16/one-for-the-bears/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/800px-sun_bear_bile_extration_01.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Bile farm.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/the-truth-about-bear-farming-in-china.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Chinese bear farm.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/65325226_bearonbearfarminhanoi-3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Hanoi bear farm. (Photo: Animals Asia)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Bears are locked in cages like these for years.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2999965-large.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Moon bears at the Vietnam Bear Rescue Centre are no longer at risk for losing their home.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-26T16:22:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/14/4992/</loc><lastmod>2013-02-15T00:34:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/10/beggar/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/beggar2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beggar2</image:title><image:caption>Boaters feeding Beggar. (Photo: Sarasotat Dolphin Research Program)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/beggar1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beggar1</image:title><image:caption>Beggar as juvenile 1990. (Photo: Sarasotat Dolphin Research Program)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/beggar.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beggar</image:title><image:caption>Beggar at work. (Photo: Sarasota Dolphin Research Program)
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-22T01:29:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/09/more-pet-violence/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/article-2266735-171917fd000005dc-796_634x468.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Kudo is expected to make a full recovery.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-22T01:40:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/08/a-visit-with-lolita/</loc><lastmod>2013-02-09T19:43:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/07/un-believable/</loc><lastmod>2013-02-10T17:12:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/05/primate-stats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/dsc_6617-macaques-by-keri-cairns-compressed1-556x369.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Long-tailed macaques like these are the most commonly imported primate into the U.S.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-07T17:05:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/06/lethal-predator-control/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/wildlife-svcs1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wildlife Svcs</image:title><image:caption>Wildlife Services.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1qe4xp-st-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1qe4xP.St.4</image:title><image:caption>Coyote killed in a government neck snare. (Photo by former Wildlife Services trapper)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/uoq2t-st-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>UoQ2T.St.4</image:title><image:caption>This plane used by federal Wildlife Services for aerial attacks on wolves – with 58 paw-print decals indicating the number killed – stirred outrage when published on a conservation blog last year. To many, the decals showed callousness toward wildlife. An agency spokesperson apologized, saying the decals were removed when a manager realized they could offend some people. Aerial hunting is one of Wildlife Services' most popular methods for killing coyotes and wolves. Critics want it curtailed or halted, saying it is expensive, dangerous and often used to kill animals that haven't harmed livestock. (Photo: Wildlife News)
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1farde-xl-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1fardE.Xl.4</image:title><image:caption>Three coyotes caught in leg hold traps, at top and foreground, await death in this photo taken by a Wildlife Services trapper in Nevada. The coyote in the foreground is being attacked by the trapper's dogs. Leg-hold traps are used by the agency to capture and kill 10,000 to 12,000 animals a year. Roughly half are coyotes, but more than two dozen other species are also targeted, including black bears, muskrats, mountain lions and wild pigs. Leg-hold traps have been banned in many countries.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/sh5il-xl-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sH5iL.Xl.4</image:title><image:caption>A coyote hunts rodents in the Sierra Valley north of Truckee. The animals generally pose little danger to cattle. (Photo: Tom Knudson/sacbee.com)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/wildlife-svcs.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Wildlife Services.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1wu3l-st-4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1wU3l.St.4</image:title><image:caption>Bella, a Husky who got trapped by a government neck snare, was found by her owner near their campground. She had chewed off her own foot. Here, she waits to be transported for medical care. (Photo: Bob Norie)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-21T09:13:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/02/05/blue-creek-bigfoot/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/fr-357-single-shot-1-1-5mb1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Fr 357 SINGLE SHOT* 1.JPG (1.5MB)</image:title><image:caption>Frame from Patterson/Gimlin film.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jgatbluecreek11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>JGatBlueCreek1</image:title><image:caption>John Green investigates footprints on Blue Creek Mountain above the Bluff Creek drainage, 1967. 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(Photo © The Peregrine Fund)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-20T09:22:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/27/breeder-farm-special/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-27T22:49:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/27/1-2-3/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/animalaidindia2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AnimalAidIndia2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/animalaidindia1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AnimalAidIndia1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-23T03:17:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/24/humans-are-animals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/6a00d8341c562c53ef017d3e7c9151970c-800wi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6a00d8341c562c53ef017d3e7c9151970c-800wi</image:title><image:caption>Tim Flch Photography: MORE THAN HUMAN.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-24T21:07:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/23/american-cetaceans/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gws12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>GW</image:title><image:caption>Grays traveling.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nsmigration.jpg</image:loc><image:title>migration</image:title><image:caption>Gray whale migration route.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/6a00d8341c630a53ef017d40573212970c-640wi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>California grays</image:title><image:caption>Two whales side by side near Port of Long Beach. (Photo: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/6a00d8341c630a53ef017d40572daa970c-640wi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gray whale</image:title><image:caption>Gray whale swims near the Port of Long Beach, California. (Photo: Gina Ferazzi / LA Times)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-24T00:25:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/20/why-is-this-man-grinning/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sci-paulryan2013.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SCI PaulRyan2013</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-30T02:02:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/20/umm/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc01096b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>CFGA</image:title><image:caption>Jacob catches up.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-20T23:58:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/22/the-man-behind-bigfoot/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-ca-1950-jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan ca 1950 jpg</image:title><image:caption>Ivan in TV studio, ca. 1949</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-garry-moore-wcapaberra-jpg2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan Garry Moore wCapaberra jpg</image:title><image:caption>Ivan with Garry Moore, ca. 1956</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-garry-moore-wcapaberra-jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan Garry Moore wCapaberra jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-garry-moore-wcapaberra-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan Garry Moore wCapaberra jpg</image:title><image:caption>Ivan with Garry Moore and capaberra, ca 1956</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-ca-1950-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan ca 1950 jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-and-alma-1938-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan and Alma 1938 jpg</image:title><image:caption>Ivan and Alma Sanderson, 1938 </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ivan-1937.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ivan 1937</image:title><image:caption>Ivan Sanderson, the Caribbean, 1937</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Image2</image:title><image:caption>Alma Sanderson, New York City, 1957</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-13T12:55:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/21/601/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/raju_300x400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Raju_300x400</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-21T17:17:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/19/trophy-hunting/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/safricacannedhuntlions.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SAfricacannedhunts</image:title><image:caption>South Africa. Raised for canned hunting.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/african-lion-esa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>african-lion-esa</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: International Fund for Animal Welfare)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-13T09:40:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/20/blood-ivory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/elephants-killed-by-sudanese-janjaweed.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Victims of Sudanese Jangaweed.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tusk.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>KWS rangers and officers display ivory seized at the Jommo Kenyatta International Airport. The cargo was destined for Malaysia through Dubai by Emirates airline.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hk_ivory_2012body2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hk_ivory_2012</image:title><image:caption>Hong Kong Customs seizure totaled 1,209 pieces of ivory tusks and 1.4 kilograms of ivory ornaments.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/article-0-16bf696c000005dc-916_634x424.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jan 5, 2013</image:title><image:caption>Tusks confiscated in Hong Kong January 4. (Photo: AP)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/65318304_65318299.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mombasa</image:title><image:caption>Declared as "decorating stones.” (Photo: Reuters)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mombassa-1-16-13.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mombassa 1-16-13</image:title><image:caption>Mombassa ivory seizure.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-21T03:07:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/17/corridor-of-life/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dsc06545.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC06545</image:title><image:caption>Oil palm planted right up to the river edge along Kinabatangan.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/clouded-leopard-cub-at-danum.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Danum</image:title><image:caption>   Rarely photographed clouded leopard cub, one of three animals previously recorded in Danum Valley, Malaysian Borneo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sumatran-rhino-s-j-yorath-wwf.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sumatran-rhino-S-J-Yorath-WWF</image:title><image:caption>Sumatran rhino (Photo: S-J-Yorath-World Wildlife Fund)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/borneo-pygmy-elephant.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Borneo Pygmy Elephant</image:title><image:caption>/Users/michaelmcleod/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Modified/2013/Roll 1433/Borneo Pygmy Elephant.tiff</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dgfc-04.jpg</image:loc><image:title>orang-oetan, orang-utan, Pongo pygmaeus morio</image:title><image:caption>Bornean orangutan (Photo: Sabah Wildlife Department/Danau Girang Field Centre)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sabah-borneo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sabah</image:title><image:caption>Sabah, Borneo</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/sunrise-over-danum-valley.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sunrise over Danum Valley</image:title><image:caption>Sunrise over the Danum Valley, on the northern portion of the island of Borneo, one of the last remaining primary rainforests in the county and one of the last remaining places on earth where Sumatran rhino, elephant, clouded leopard and orangutan live side by side. 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Released in lawsuit.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/troygentry8.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gentry</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/troygentry6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TroyGentry6</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/troygentry4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>TroyGentry</image:title><image:caption>Trophy photo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/troygentry11-secs-after-shooting-bear.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gentry</image:title><image:caption>Gentry seconds after shooting the bear.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gentry-greenley-fake-video1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gentry  video</image:title><image:caption>Greenly and Gentry discuss upcoming "hunt."</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gentry-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gentry</image:title><image:caption>Troy Gentry</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cubby2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cubby2</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-15T14:06:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/12/pelangsi/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/05090859360_pelangsi-covered-with-leaves.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pelangsi </image:title><image:caption>Stressed in captivity, Pelangsi tries to hide under the foliage in his cage whenever the vets approach him.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/05090859360_pelangsi-during-operation.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pelangsi during operation</image:title><image:caption>The IAR Indonesia veterinary team was led by Dr Adi Irawan, under the guidance of Dr. Paolo Martelli, Chief Veterinarian Ocean Park Hong Kong

  </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/04121248480_karmele-cuts-pelangsi-free.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Karmele cuts pelangsi free</image:title><image:caption>Veterinary director Karmele Llano Sanchez cutting Pelangsi free.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/04121248480_trapped-in-snare.jpg</image:loc><image:title>trapped in snare.</image:title><image:caption>Pelangsi was trapped in the snare for ten days without food or water.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/05090859360_pelangsi-post-surgery.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pelangsi post surgery</image:title><image:caption>Pelangsi.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-15T03:00:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/13/a-child-is-born/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/img_1880-300x225.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1880-300x225</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-14T17:08:08+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/04/moon-bear-news/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/vbr20121208.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vets with moon bear</image:title><image:caption>An initial health check by Animals Asia’s veterinary team revealed no major health concerns. (Photo: Animals Asia)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/vbr20121206.jpg</image:loc><image:title>moon bear transfer</image:title><image:caption>The Sa Thay police were extremely helpful in ensuring Bon Bon’s transfer went smoothly, even assisting with loading him into the sanctuary’s truck. (Photo: Animals Asia)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/vbr20121204.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Vietnamese moon bear</image:title><image:caption>Bon Bon in the care of Sa Thay police. (Photo: Animals Asia)

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(Photo: Animals Asia)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>asiatic black bears</image:title><image:caption>Ricky and Joey (Photo: Animals Asia)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-13T06:55:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/09/virunga-2013/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/silverback-gorilla.png</image:loc><image:title>silverback-gorilla</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/201212snares-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>201212snares-2</image:title><image:caption>One of 114 snares found in just 4 days.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/201212kabirizi-5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>201212kabirizi-5</image:title><image:caption>Kabirizi Family.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/201212lulengo-7.jpg</image:loc><image:title>201212lulengo-7</image:title><image:caption>Lulengo Family.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mafuko-201212kabirizi-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>mafuko-201212kabirizi-1</image:title><image:caption>Kabirizi Family.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/201212lulengo-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>201212lulengo-2</image:title><image:caption>Lulengo Family.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-13T06:54:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/12/4421/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-13T00:57:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/11/last-javan-rhino/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dead_javan_rhino.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Javan Rhino</image:title><image:caption>European hunter with a dead Javan Rhino in 1895.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/javan-rhino-ranges.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Javan rhino ranges</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/cat-tien-national-park-satellite.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cat Tien National Park.</image:title><image:caption>Cat Tien National Park, Vietnam (satellite)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/last-vietnam-rhino_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>last Vietnam rhino_2</image:title><image:caption>Vietnamese subspecies of Javan Rhino Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus. (Photo: World Wildlife Fund)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-11T23:34:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/10/architeuthis/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/46d2dc984ac6815b4dd7747790b6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>giant squid</image:title><image:caption>Frame from footage. (Photo: Japan National Science Museum)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gaint-squid.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Gaint Squid</image:title><image:caption>Frame from giant squid video.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-24T13:15:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/26/american-consumption/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/398px-panama_spider_monkey_costa_rica.jpg</image:loc><image:title>398px-Panama_spider_monkey,_Costa_Rica</image:title><image:caption>Female Panama spider monkey at the Caña Blanca wildlife sanctuary on the Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica. This individual had been illegally kept as a pet before being confiscated and sent to the sanctuary, and had spent her whole life on a short leash; because of this, she would panic whenever she was let off the leash and had to be kept on a 40-foot tether. (photo: Wikimedia commons. Steven G. Johnson)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-10T19:15:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/08/more-rogues-gallery-usa/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-10T01:15:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/07/sky-island-cats-usa/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ocelot2011-usfwsuadhs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ocelot 2011 </image:title><image:caption>The ocelot was first spotted in 2011, and has been recorded a few times since. (Photo: USFWS/UA/DHS)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/usfws-maleocelot-taken-10812.jpg</image:loc><image:title>USFWS maleocelot taken 10:8:12</image:title><image:caption>Male ocelot taken 10:8:12. (Photo: USFWS)
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/usfws-malejaguar1-taken-82512.jpg</image:loc><image:title>malejaguar</image:title><image:caption>Male jaguar taken 8:25:12. (Photo: USFWS)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/usfws-malejaguar3-taken-111012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>USFWS malejaguar</image:title><image:caption>Male jaguar taken 11:10:12. (Photo: USFWS)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/usfws-malejaguar2-taken-111012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>USFWS malejaguar2 taken 11:10:12</image:title><image:caption>Male jaguar taken 11:10:12. (Photo: USFWS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-07T20:28:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/07/4299/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-07T17:31:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/06/air-canada/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/airlinemonkeys.jpg</image:loc><image:title>AirlineMonkeys</image:title><image:caption>Long-tailed macaques in a cargo hold en route to a European lab. (Photo: BUAV)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-07T05:46:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/06/photo-op/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/rugendo_in_bukima.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rugendo_in_bukima</image:title><image:caption>Silverback of the Rugendo Family. (Photo: Innocent Mburanumwe)
</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-24T11:17:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/05/bafq-cats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/mr_ghoddusi_telemetry_winter-2007_zemestun-1386.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bafq cheetah</image:title><image:caption>Cheetah Bafq Protected Area. (Photo: CACP/mr. ghoddusi, winter-2007)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/iranian-cheetah-family.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Iranian Cheetah family</image:title><image:caption>In early November 2008, Ebrahim Gholamrezapoor &amp; Asghar Khajeie, encountered a family of 3 cheetahs in Orsestan valley of Bafq and took a few photographs.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/jade-khaki-mantaghe-hefazat-shode.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jade khaki mantaghe hefazat shode</image:title><image:caption>Expansion of the road though the heart of the Bafq Protected Area poses threat to indigenous wildlife.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bafq-eight-leopards.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bafq eight leopards</image:title><image:caption>Eight adult leopards identified in Bafq. (Photo: ©ICS/YazdDoE/CACP/Panthera)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-05T20:25:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/02/throw-away-the-key/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abusedhogs11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abusedhogs1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abusedhogs1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abusedhogs1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abusedhogs3.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>ANIMAL POST 1/2/13 “Throw Away the Key” shows workers kicking and punching pigs at a Tyson supplier's facility in Wheatland, Wyoming 
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abusedhogs2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abusedhogs2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/abusedhogs4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>abusedhogs4</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-16T02:01:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/02/the-road/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/boyspatrol_signe-1024x768.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chimp Haven</image:title><image:caption>Boys Patrol</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/hamletsforesthome_af.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hamletsforesthome</image:title><image:caption>Hamlet at Chimp Haven.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-08T10:19:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/03/protest-can-work/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012751310467734_20.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ulsan whales</image:title><image:caption>Whale processing in Ulsan, South Korea. (Photo: Greenpeace)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-04T00:19:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/18/saving-primates/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ippl-radiobiology-testapr-79-jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Rhesus monkey radiobiology test.</image:title><image:caption>Monkey on radiation wheel at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, 1979.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/p6280056.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Shirley McGreal</image:title><image:caption>Shirley McGrill at IPPL's gibbon sanctuary.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ippl-radiobiology-testapr-79-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>radiobiology test Apr 79</image:title><image:caption>  Monkey on radiation wheel at the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, 1979.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-02T20:59:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/28/ask-a-stupid-question-day/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dsc_9964_whoop_whoop_and_froggie_300x400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_9964_Whoop_Whoop_and_froggie_300x400</image:title><image:caption>Whoop-Whoop is one of the few of IPPL's gibbons who really likes toys.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-02T20:49:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/12/petas-first-action/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sspring-monkey-public-domain2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>SSpring-monkey-public domain</image:title><image:caption>Institute for Behavioral Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1981</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-02T20:39:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/28/night-monkeys/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/night_monkey_from_fundacion_entropika_150x113.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Night_monkey_from_Fundacion_Entropika_150x113</image:title><image:caption>Night monkeys from Dr. Patarroyo's lab, after they've been experimented on, are allegedly just thrown back into the forest. [Photo © Fundación Entropika]&#13;
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dsc_0831-angela-maldonado-199x300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0831-Angela-Maldonado-199x300</image:title><image:caption>Angela Maldonado just won a major legal victory for Colombia's night monkeys (IPPL)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dsc_0560-2-night-monkey-556x369.jpg</image:loc><image:title>DSC_0560-2-night-monkey-556x369</image:title><image:caption>Night monkeys have been used as models for malaria research in Colombia (photo: International Primate Protection League)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-02T20:13:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/24/the-concept-of-sanctuary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ippl_julius-crpl-from-andrea-edwards-200x3002.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL_julius-CRPL-from-Andrea-Edwards-200x300</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ippl_julius-crpl-from-andrea-edwards-200x3001.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL_julius-CRPL-from-Andrea-Edwards-200x300</image:title><image:caption>Julius (photo: Andrea Edwards)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ippl_julius-crpl-from-andrea-edwards-200x300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IPPL_julius-CRPL-from-Andrea-Edwards-200x300</image:title><image:caption>Julius CRPL sanctuary (photo: Andrea-Edwards)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-02T19:56:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2013/01/01/zululand/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/arcturus-t-20.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Arcturus T-20</image:title><image:caption>Arcturus T-20 drone</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zululand2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>South Africa</image:title><image:caption>South African rhino (Photo: Zululand)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/zululand3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>South African rhino</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Zululand)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-01T23:29:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/31/first-responders/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/mobile-veterinary-map2007ma.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Mobile-veterinary-map</image:title><image:caption>Sheldrick Wildlife Trust vet areas</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/00114320db41123a035d0f.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kenya</image:title><image:caption>Kenyan rangers with poached elephant.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-31T20:36:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/30/4066/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-31T16:28:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/29/mustangs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/296.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Horse trucks at Eagle Pass Export Pens, US/Mexican border.
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1104mort.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Malhuer mustangs</image:title><image:caption>Wild horses in the Malheur National Forest. (Photo: Jeffrey Shinn, USFS)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/blm-hines-corral.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hines, Oregon</image:title><image:caption>BLM Corral Facility in Hines, Oregon. (Photo: BLM)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11898012-large.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>The Murderers Creek herd. (Photo: BLM)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11898024-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Murderers Creek Wild Horse Territory</image:title><image:caption>Murderers Creek "timber horse” poised for flight. (Photo: USFS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-05T22:25:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/17/trophy-animals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/6929102402_d0463936dd_z.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Trapperman.com</image:title><image:caption>Bransford trophy photo. (Photo: Josh Bransford)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pinching4small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wolf's paw</image:title><image:caption>Wolf’s paw in Bransford’s trap. (Photo: Josh Bransford)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/pinching.jpg</image:loc><image:title>pinching</image:title><image:caption>Josh Bransford with trapped wolf. (Photo: Josh Bransford)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/coyotetorn_sept13-2010.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Jamie Olson trophy photo</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/coyote-torture.jpg</image:loc><image:title>coyote torn</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Jame Olson)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/coyote-in-trap-with-dog.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Coyote-in-trap-with-dog</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Jamie Olson)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/coyote_in_trap_dogs_jamie_p_olson_ws2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Coyote_in_trap_dogs_Jamie_P_Olson_WS2</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Jamie Olson)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sheyote_sept5-2010.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sheyote_Sept5-2010</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sheyote4_sept5-2010.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sheyote4_Sept5-2010</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Jamie Olson)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-30T16:02:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/29/or-16/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wenaha_pups_2012_imgp6636_odfw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wenaha_pups_2012_IMGP6636_odfw</image:title><image:caption>Wolf pups. Wenaha Pack, May 30, 2012. (Photo: ODFW)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/0023_umatilla_river_wolf_pups_odfw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Umatilla River wolf pups</image:title><image:caption>Picture taken by remote camera Aug. 2, 2012 shows there are at least two pups for the Umatilla River wolves this year. With four individuals in the group, it is now considered a pack. (Photo: ODFW)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/or16nov12012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OR-16 Nov 1, 2012</image:title><image:caption>OR-16 after being radio-collared near Elgin, Oregon in November 2012. (Photo: ODFW)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-29T22:36:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/14/asiatic-cat-under-azure-sky/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/cdy_0022hhh.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Asiatic cheetah</image:title><image:caption>Asiatic cheetah in Ariz No Hunting Area, central Iran, summer 2012 (Photo: Iranian Cheetah Society/YazdDoE/CACP/Panthera)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-08-20T16:03:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/28/whale-safety/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/la-me-whales-20121227-g.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>shipping lane changes</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lanews-6a00d8341c630a53e-ekn2fdqn7iijh3yhsmxcd3n21.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>Malibu beach</image:title><image:caption>A whale carcass on Malibu's Little Dume beach. The whale had injuries consistent with being struck by a ship. (Photo: Wally Skalij/LATimes)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-28T22:39:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/24/nagaland-update/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons-14jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons5.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons-2-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons-6jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons-5jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/th_1bbe11339d565dd40936ef5c626c68e6_1352209032verticalcampaign.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Amur falcons.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons-10jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amur-falcons3jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:caption>Amur falcon.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-17T03:05:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/27/tiger-new-year/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wcs-goodrich-015_small.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WCS.Goodrich.015_small</image:title><image:caption>Siberian Tiger Project staff at work during a capture (Photo: John Goodrich, Wildlife Conservation Society)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/nagarhole1.png</image:loc><image:title>nagarhole</image:title><image:caption>Nagarhole National Park</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/site_0591_0001-464-0-20091002182807.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Huai Kha Khaeny</image:title><image:caption>Camera trap captures a tigress moving her cubs in Huai Kha Khaeng. (Photo: Wildlife Conservation Society)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-28T01:22:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/27/lucky/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/6a00d83451c45669e2017ee660f238970d.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Afghanistan dog</image:title><image:caption>A member of the 1st Platoon Comanche Company of the US Army pets a dog at a checkpoint in the Combat Outpost Lakon in Buwri Tana District, Khost Province on August 9, 2012. (Photo: Jose CABEZAS/AFP/GettyImages)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-05T11:46:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/24/big-cats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wildcats-articlelarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WILDCATS</image:title><image:caption>Jaguar in Sonora State in Mexico. (Photo: Earth Island Institute)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/oncilla-bbccameratraprize.jpg</image:loc><image:title>oncilla</image:title><image:caption>Bolivian cat species called an oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus). (Phot: Guido Ayala, Maria Viscarra, and Robert Wallace/ Wildlife Conservation Society)
  
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/chinese-leopard_zhou3e85f4-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chinese Leopard</image:title><image:caption>A young male leopard (Panthera pardus) in China's Shuishui River Reserve is this year's contest winner. (Photo: Zhou Zhefeng/BBC Wildlife Magazine)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/111019171128-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jaguar</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Wildlife Conservation Society Bolivia Program</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/26angi-articlelarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>snow leopard</image:title><image:caption>Biologists have discovered a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor. (Photo: Wildlife Conservation Society)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/miandasht03_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Asiatic cheetah</image:title><image:caption>Asiatic Cheetahs in Iran (Photo: Iranian Cheetah Society)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/amurleopardbig.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur leopard</image:title><image:caption>First camera trap photo of an Amur leopard in China. (Photo: WWF-China and the Jilin Forestry Department)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-11T18:22:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/22/savings-sharks/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/oceanic-whitetip-shark-tahiti-private-expeditons.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oceanic whitetip shark </image:title><image:caption>Oceanic whitetip (Photo: Tahiti Private Expeditions)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/blacktipsharkborabora-french-polynesia.jpg</image:loc><image:title>BlacktipShark</image:title><image:caption>Blacktip Shark, Bora Bora, French Polynesia.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-22T20:40:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/21/big-gulp/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/fin-whale-gulp300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>fin-whale-gulp</image:title><image:caption>Fin whale lunge diagram, Nick Pyenson.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-21T17:47:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/20/chimps-to-sanctuary-update/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-20T21:52:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/20/monkey-town/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-28T14:25:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/18/why-i-love-vultures/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-18T21:15:51+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/18/chimps-to-sanctuary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/chimphaven.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ChimpHaven</image:title><image:caption>Chimp Haven (Photo: Chimp Haven)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rr-109-rescued.jpg</image:loc><image:title>109 rescued</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/rr_logo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Release&amp;Restitution</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-18T21:07:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/14/stop-the-eviction/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-15T01:43:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/08/wings-ii/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/6d1f3f29696b3f02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wings of Rescue</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Michal Thompson/Hillsboro Argus)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11965147-standard.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wings of Rescue</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Michal Thompson/Hillsboro Argus)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11965142-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11965142-large</image:title><image:caption>Six week old puppy, one of 200 distributed to nearly a half-dozen Oregon agencies for pet adoption. (Photo: Michal Thompson/Hillsboro Argus)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/e6bf5b939a738c1c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wings of Rescue</image:title><image:caption>Chloe, stepping into a new life in Oregon. (Photo: Michal Thompson/The Hillsboro Argus)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-13T21:12:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/13/50000-hens/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-photo-animal-place1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Turlock rescue</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-photo-animal-place.jpg</image:loc><image:title>turlock (Photo- Animal Place)</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/photo-animal-place.jpg</image:loc><image:title>(Photo- Animal Place)</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-hen-outside-2-by-marjji-beach-article-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Turlock rescue</image:title><image:caption>Hen stretches and flaps her wings for the very first time. (Photo: Marji Beach/Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-hen-bath-by-marji-beach.jpg</image:loc><image:title>turlock-hen-bath-by-marji-beach</image:title><image:caption>Kelle Kacmarcik cares for a rescued hen. (PHOTO: Christine Morrissey/Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-jamie-feeding-hens-by-marji-beach-article-image1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Turlock rescue</image:title><image:caption>Jamie London and Jacie Volek help care for sickest hens. (Photo: Marji Beach/Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-jamie-feeding-hens-by-marji-beach-article-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>turlock-jamie-feeding-hens-by-marji-beach-article-image</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-bedgraggled-hen-by-marji-beach-slim-article-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Turlock hen</image:title><image:caption>Bedraggled and near death, this hen waits for special medical care. (Photo by Marji Beach/Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/turlock-manure-pit-by-marji-beach-slim-article-image.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Turlock, California</image:title><image:caption>Manure pit beneath the sheds where many hens drowned. (Photo: Marji Beach/Animal Place)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-13T19:03:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/13/tigress/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/121212110940-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Karnataka</image:title><image:caption>Tigress caught in barbed wire fence. (Photo: Karnataka Forest Department)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-13T17:19:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/12/wild-horses/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-12T23:06:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/12/japanese-yahoo-whaling/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/eia.jpg</image:loc><image:title>EIA</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/bairds-beaked-whale-processed-in-japan-c-eia-700x467.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Bairds-Beaked-Whale-processed-in-Japan-c-EIA-700x467</image:title><image:caption>Baird’s Beaked Whale being processed in Japan (Photo: EIA)
</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/a-whale-and-calf-being-loaded-aboard-a-factory-ship-the-nisshin-maru-c-customs-and-border-protection-service-commonwealth-of-australia-700x525.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Japanese whaling</image:title><image:caption>A whale and calf being loaded aboard a factory ship, the Nisshin Maru. (Photo: Customs and Border Protection Service, Commonwealth of Australia)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-09T21:28:59+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/11/war-on-animals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/garamba-poached-elephant.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba poached elephant</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Tyler Hicks/NYT)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/garamba-ranger-w-tusks.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba ranger w tusks</image:title><image:caption>Garamba ranger. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/NYT)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/garamba-ranger-jpt.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba NP, DRC.</image:title><image:caption>Garamba ranger. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/NYT)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/20120904-ivory-slide-2hss-jumbo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>20120904-Ivory-slide-2HSS-jumbo</image:title><image:caption>Garamba National Park, DRC. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/NYT)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-11T17:56:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/06/another-death-by-cop/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/lily.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lily</image:title><image:caption>Lily</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-27T09:04:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/10/or-7-2/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/628x471.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oregon wolf</image:title><image:caption>California state biologist Richard Shinn snapped a photograph of OR-7 on May 8, after spotting him on a sagebrush hillside 100 yards away in southwestern Modoc County. Shinn was among a group of biologists, game wardens and a federal trapper who were there to talk to local ranchers about the prospect of having a wolf in their midst.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/or-7-122811-710112-jpb.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OR-7 12:28:11-7:10:112</image:title><image:caption>OR-7 wanderings in northern California.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11957318-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>OR-7</image:title><image:caption>Nov. 14, 2011, photo from a trail camera shows OR-7 on public land east of Butte Falls in Oregon's Jackson County.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-10T23:43:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/10/3676/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wolf-killed_source-fb-posted-november-13.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wolf-killed, posted Nov. 3, 2012</image:title><image:caption>reblogged from Howling for Justice.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-10T22:49:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/10/bullseye/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012109152539336-2012-11margshipmanfa.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Yellowstone wolf</image:title><image:caption>Alpha female 06, leader of the Lamar Canyon pack. (Photo: Jimmy Jones)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012109155479338-2012-11margshipmanfc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Yellowstone wolves</image:title><image:caption>The 100 or so wolves in Yellowstone have limited the growth of bison herds, mostly by preying on young, but they are no match for adult bison. (Photo: Doug Smith, courtesy of the National Park Service)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wolf-popup.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WOLF-popup</image:title><image:caption>The wolf that researchers called 832F, left, with her companion  known as 754. (Photo: Doug McLaughlin)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-10T20:32:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/05/chimpanzee-trafficking-again-the-chinese/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/316102429_7ad792e71e_z.jpg</image:loc></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-09T02:19:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/04/true-wolf/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hp_mharvey27.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hp_MHarvey27</image:title><image:caption>Ethiopian wolves. (Photo: International Wolf Center, M.Harvey)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ethiopian-wolf-map.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ethiopian wolf map</image:title><image:caption>Range detail.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ethiopian_wolf_3748_v1224016449.png</image:loc><image:title>Ethiopian_wolf_3748_v1224016449</image:title><image:caption>Ethiopia</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ethiopian-wolf2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ethiopian wolf2</image:title><image:caption>Ethiopian wolf with mole.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ethiopian-wolf-hunt1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ethiopian wolf hunt1</image:title><image:caption>Digging for rodents.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/1109ewolf400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ethiopian wolves</image:title><image:caption>Ethiopian wolves. (Photo: ©A.L. Harrington)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-08T00:55:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/07/wings/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11959619-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wings of Rescue</image:title><image:caption>Sue Zucker, rescue group coordinator for Riverside County Animal Services, hugs Noel, a 2-year-old female terrier. Noel was among the California dogs airlifted to new homes in Oregon. (Photo: Riverside County Animal Services)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/shapeimage_1.png</image:loc><image:title>shapeimage_1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-07T18:53:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/07/3579/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-07T18:28:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/05/killing-contests-usa/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-28T14:17:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/02/kill-buyers/</loc><lastmod>2013-01-01T07:04:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/23/canis-rufus/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/400px-red_wolf_lo5s5245_original.jpg</image:loc><image:title>red wolf</image:title><image:caption>red wolf, North Carolina. (Photo: Steve Hillebrand)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-22T20:45:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/12/01/a-day-at-the-zoo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/littlemamalcs1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LittleMamaLCS</image:title><image:caption>Little Mama, Lion Country Safari.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/littlemamalcs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LittleMamaLCS</image:title><image:caption>Little Mama, Lion Country Safari.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/113012-newborn-pdxzoo-elephant.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11:30:12 newborn PDXzoo elephant</image:title><image:caption>Newborn November 30, 2012. (Photo: Portland zoo)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/11931790-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Coco</image:title><image:caption>Coco, photographed early this year. (Photo: MICHAEL DURHAM/Oregon Zoo)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-01T18:39:18+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/30/wanted/</loc><lastmod>2012-12-01T06:02:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/30/blood-sport/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/two_greyhounds_with_a_hare.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hare coursing</image:title><image:caption>Two greyhounds with a hare (Photo: League Against Cruel Sports)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/hare-coursing-006.jpg</image:loc><image:title>hare-coursing-006</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-10T20:34:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/30/camera-trap-prizes/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/oncilla-bbccameratraprize.jpg</image:loc><image:title>oncilla BBCcameratraprize</image:title><image:caption>Photograph taken by Wildlife Conservation Society scientists of a Bolivian cat species called an oncilla. (Photo: Guido Ayala, Maria Viscarra, and Robert Wallace/WCS)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/horned-guan_javier-rivas-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Horned-guan_Javier-Rivas.568</image:title><image:caption>A horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus) in Guatemala. Not a guan at all, this bird is the last survivor of a family of birds. It's listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List. (Photo: Javier Rivas)
 </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/chinese-leopard_zhou3e85f4-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Chinese-Leopard_Zhou#3E85F4.568</image:title><image:caption>A young male leopard (Panthera pardus) in China's Shuishui River Reserve. (Photo: Zhou Zhefeng)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-30T18:34:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/29/moon-bear-update/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/bear1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bear1</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/moonbears.png</image:loc><image:title>moon bear China</image:title><image:caption>Rescued moon bear at the Animals Asia Foundation sanctuary in China (Photo: Kim Bartlett)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-07T21:24:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/26/congo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/virunga-satellite.jpg</image:loc><image:title>virunga satellite</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/p1020118.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Virunga gorillas</image:title><image:caption>mountain gorillas</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/save-virunga.jpg</image:loc><image:title>save virunga</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-22T12:33:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/25/ivory/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arranz-elephantherd-8-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba elephants</image:title><image:caption>Large elephant herds still survive in Garamba, but for how long? (Photo: Nuria Ortega)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arranz-poacherspolis-1-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>poacher spoils</image:title><image:caption>Confiscated elephant parts from poachers. (Photo: Nuria Ortega)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/zgetimage-php.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>zGetImage</image:title><image:caption>Garamba National Park, DRC.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arranz-guards-3-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba guards</image:title><image:caption>Wildlife rangers for Garamba National Park. (Photo: Nuria Ortega)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/arranz-elephantherd-7-360.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Garamba Park, DRC.</image:title><image:caption>Elephant herd in Garamba Park, DRC. (Photo: Nuria Ortega)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-25T20:27:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/23/iranian-cheetahs/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/miandasht03_22.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Miandasht</image:title><image:caption>Asiatic Cheetahs in Iran (Photo: Iranian Cheetah Society)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-01T06:56:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/21/aint-nature-grand/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/image_731_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image_731_2</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/image_731_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image_731_1</image:title><image:caption>Etheostoma</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-21T21:52:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/20/clueless/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/careerbuilder4jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/careerbuilder31.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/careerbuilder3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/monkey_boss.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/careerbuilder5jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/careerbuilder6jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>careerbuilder</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-29T06:16:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/19/sanctuary-in-kentucky/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/prc.jpg</image:loc><image:title>PRC</image:title><image:caption>Primate Rescue Center chimps.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-19T18:11:20+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/09/nagaland/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons3jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-7jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-14jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-2-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-12jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-10jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons3jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-9jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-4jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/amur-falcons-6jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Amur Falcons</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-11-07T22:14:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/17/soring/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/walking-horse-poster.jpg</image:loc><image:title>walking horse</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/david-williams.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>David Williams, Waterfall Farms</image:title><image:caption>David Williams, the operations manager at Waterfall Farms, leads Lined with Cash to a pen at the farm.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>example of soring</image:title><image:caption>What a "sored" leg looks like after trainers have applied painful, toxic chemicals. (Photo: USDA)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/jackie-l-mcconnell-091912.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Jackie L. McConnell</image:title><image:caption>Horse trainer Jackie McConnell convicted of soring.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/radiography-padded-hoof2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>radiography padded hoof</image:title><image:caption>49 nails being used in this Performance Horse package.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-29T03:59:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/17/tara/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tarra_bella_300x220.jpg</image:loc><image:title>friends</image:title><image:caption>Tarra and Bella</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tpaint1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Tara is a painter</image:title><image:caption>Tara, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-05-19T19:10:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/16/oreo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/oreophotos188.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oreo at Blue Star.</image:title><image:caption>Oreo at Blue Star Equiculture.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/oreophotos176.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carriage horse Oreo.</image:title><image:caption>Oreo arriving at Blue Star Equiculture,</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/16cityroom-horse1-blog480.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Oreo wobbly on his feet.</image:title><image:caption>After the tranquilizer wore off a bit, Oreo was able to stand up and walk into a police truck.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/16horse-blog480.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Carriage horse down, NYC.</image:title><image:caption>Oreo down at Ninth Avenue after being shot with a tranquilizer dart.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/horse2-blog480.jpg</image:loc><image:title>HORSE2-blog480</image:title><image:caption>Remains of Oreo's carriage.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/horse-popup.jpg</image:loc><image:title>NYC carriage horse Oreo.</image:title><image:caption>Oreo. (Photo: Ángel Franco/The New York Times)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-17T06:20:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/15/caught/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/killed-amur-tiger-russia_phoenix-5681.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Killed-Amur-tiger-Russia_Phoenix.568</image:title><image:caption>Poached Amur tiger. (Photo: ZSL)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/killed-amur-tiger-russia_phoenix-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Killed-Amur-tiger-Russia.</image:title><image:caption>Poached Amur tiger. (Photo: ZSL) </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/intruder-caught-on-camera_zsl_lazovsky-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Intruder-caught-on-camera_ZSL</image:title><image:caption>Camera trap catches intruders in Lazovsky Nature Reserve. (Photo: Zoological Society of London)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-15T20:36:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/14/trophy-animal/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/6929102402_d0463936dd_z.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6929102402_d0463936dd_z</image:title><image:caption>Bransford with the black wolf he trapped.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pinching.jpg</image:loc><image:title>wolf trap</image:title><image:caption>Trapperman.comJosh Bransford with the black wolf he trapped.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-15T07:21:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/12/uga-beluga/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/5d188736-17c0-4e6a-b16b-eb7a71d1c1d6_mw1024_s.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beluga whale</image:title><image:caption>Beluga whale at the Moscow Dolphinarium.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-07-26T00:49:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/11/some-book/</loc><lastmod>2012-11-12T00:38:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/10/kooloo-kamba/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/i-30c64aaece8832bc9275f8fa15af3053-pseudogorilla-dec-2009.jpg</image:loc><image:title>i-30c64aaece8832bc9275f8fa15af3053-pseudogorilla-dec-2009</image:title><image:caption>Pygmy gorilla Pseudogorilla mayéma (Photo: B. Heuvelmans)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/i-2eab60a01bfe6f01217f31ce1e2f30db-yaounde-zoo-jenkins-gadsby-ape-1996.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ape photographed at the Yaounde Zoo</image:title><image:caption>Mystery ape, Yaounde Zoo, Cameroon (Photo: Peter Jenkins and Liza Gadsby)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-10T20:37:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/08/carnivores-in-the-city/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/11788530-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>urban coyote</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/121005100909-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>urban coyote</image:title><image:caption>Stan Gehrt, a wildlife ecologist at Ohio State University, inspects a coyote captured in the greater Chicago area. 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</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/la-me-griffith-park-mountain-lion-pictures-001.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>mountain lion</image:title><image:caption>P-22, snapped by a remote camera Feb. 12, 2012, at 9:15 p.m. in the Griffith Park area of Los Angeles.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-08T20:40:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/08/an-opinion/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/border-horses.jpg</image:loc><image:title>border horses</image:title><image:caption>Unloading horses at the border</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-08T16:49:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/05/busted/</loc><lastmod>2012-11-06T08:42:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/03/virunga-rescue/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/luc745511.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Eastern lowland gorilla.</image:title><image:caption>Isangi.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/luc74551.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Eastern lowland gorilla.</image:title><image:caption>Isangi.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/3-vnp-201209-poached-grauers-gorilla-5-2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Baby Grauer's Gorilla Poached from Kahuzi Biega National Park, DR Congo.</image:title><image:caption>9 month old Isang, brought to Virunga National Park to stay at the lower enclosure of Senkwekwe Orphan Gorilla Center.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vnp-2nd-poached-baby-gorilla-17.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2nd poached gorilla rescued in one week.</image:title><image:caption>Caretaker Kakule with the new baby Baraka.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/baraka2-copy-450x313.jpg</image:loc><image:title>baraka2-copy-450x313</image:title><image:caption>Baraka.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/luc74551.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_luc74551</image:title><image:caption>Isangi.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-03T20:26:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/02/call-me-ishmael/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/080318203016-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>080318203016-large</image:title><image:caption>White orca off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/s_antigua_2011_d3_moffen_17sept09_14.jpg</image:loc><image:title>s_antigua_2011_d3_moffen_17sept09_14</image:title><image:caption>Antigua on the north coast of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/svalbard_white_whale_dfisherlarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>svalbard_white_whale_dfisherlarge</image:title><image:caption>Albino Humpback whale seen off Svalbard. (Photo: Dan Fisher)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-02T18:11:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/02/the-wind-and-the-wuage/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/img_4433.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_4433</image:title><image:caption>Potentially Nervous</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-02T16:03:26+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/23/869/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/172963.jpg</image:loc><image:title>172963</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-01T20:34:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/11/01/dorothy/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dorothy_the_chim_enhanced-buzz-31036-1346362473-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dorothy_the_chim_enhanced-buzz-31036-1346362473-3</image:title><image:caption>Dorothy died of heart failure at the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Center in Cameroon. (Photo: Monica Szczupider)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-03T11:53:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/29/candid-camera/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/picture1_longtailedmacaque-kina-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Longtailed macaque</image:title><image:caption>Long-tailed macaque. (Photo: Sabah Wildlife Department and the Danau Girang Field Centre)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/picture9_cloudedleopard-kina-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture9_Cloudedleopard.kina.568</image:title><image:caption>Sunda clouded leopard. (Photo: Sabah Wildlife Department and the Danau Girang Field Centre </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/picture14_flangedorangutan-kina-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Picture14_FlangedOrangutan.kina.568</image:title><image:caption>Bornean orangutan. (Photo: Sabah Wildlife Department and the Danau Girang Field Centre) </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-01T04:15:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/25/714/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/98610_v1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>98610_v1</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-01T01:30:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/07/out-of-the-forest-back-to-wonderland/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/img_9248_2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_9248_2</image:title><image:caption>http://potentiallynervous.blogspot.com/</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-31T18:57:28+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/19/stark-approach-to-saving-rhinos/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/down-rhino-ranch-de-horning-critical-20-sep-11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>down-rhino-ranch-de-horning-critical</image:title><image:caption>Dehorned rhino. (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rhino-ranch-de-horning_3_219.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino-ranch-de-horning_3_219</image:title><image:caption>Chopper carrying vet. (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rhino-ranch-de-horning_6_219.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino-ranch-de-horning_6_219</image:title><image:caption>Rhino team (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rhino-ranch-de-horning_5_219.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino-ranch-de-horning_5_219</image:title><image:caption>Lowveld Rhino Trust team at work. (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rhino-ranch-de-horning_1_219.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino-ranch-de-horning_1_219</image:title><image:caption>Not as painful as it looks. (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rhino-ranch-de-horning_2_219.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino-ranch-de-horning_2_219</image:title><image:caption>On the go again. (Photo: LJ Campbell - Chishakwe Ranch)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/world-rhino-day-22nd-september-2012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>world-rhino-day-22nd-september-2012</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Act for Wildlife)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-31T18:56:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/30/narok/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sheldricktrust_11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>sheldricktrust_11</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/kenya_elephant_orphanage_bauer_0e20f-3513.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Kenya_Elephant_Orphanage_Bauer_0e20f-3513</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-30T18:28:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/29/anti-poaching-fund/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/zgetimage-php.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>zGetImage.php</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T23:03:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/29/no-fly-fins/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/shark-fins.jpg</image:loc><image:title>shark fins</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/cathay.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cathay</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-31T06:19:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/18/apex-predators/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/6a00d83451c45669e2017743946104970d-550wi1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6a00d83451c45669e2017743946104970d-550wi</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Marshall Islands law enforcement personnel on a longline fishing vessel sort through hundreds of kilograms of confiscated shark fins in the Marshall Islands territory's waters. The Marshall Islands has begun fining vessels caught fishing for sharks since the introduction of a ban on trading shark fins across its vast waters late last year. (By Giff Johnson/AFP/Getty Images)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cf_greatwhite.jpg</image:loc><image:title>CF_greatwhite</image:title><image:caption>Discovery Channel</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/6a00d83451c45669e2017743946104970d-550wi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>6a00d83451c45669e2017743946104970d-550wi</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Marshall Islands law enforcement personnel on a longline fishing vessel sort through hundreds of kilograms of confiscated shark fins in the Marshall Islands territory's waters. The Marshall Islands has begun fining vessels caught fishing for sharks since the introduction of a ban on trading shark fins across its vast waters late last year. (By Giff Johnson/AFP/Getty Images)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/shrk-bycatch-cofi-400-lw.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Dead Zam and Freediver</image:title><image:caption>(Dead Zam and Freediver)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/717982121.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Great white shark</image:title><image:caption>(Oceana)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/71798212.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Great white shark</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T20:11:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/12/critically-endangered/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/110228090603-large2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>110228090603-large</image:title><image:caption>Belalanda chameleon, found only in Madagascar (photo: University of Kent)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/110228090603-large1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>110228090603-large</image:title><image:caption>Belalanda chameleon, found only in Madagascar (photo: University of Kent)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/110228090603-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>110228090603-large</image:title><image:caption>Belalanda chameleon. (photo: University of Kent)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T20:05:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/18/vaquita/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rare3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rare3</image:title><image:caption>vaquita (photo: National Geographic)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-01-13T08:27:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/25/yeti-connection/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gk70835_s.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gk70835_s</image:title><image:caption>Serow (Photo: Murray Foote, MurrayFoote.com</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T20:02:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/24/arthur-and-phoenix-update/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/art_phoen_color1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Art_Phoen_Color</image:title><image:caption>Arthur and Phoenix</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T20:01:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/26/nih-chimps/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/csnw-newsletter-banner.jpg</image:loc><image:title>csnw-newsletter-banner</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T20:00:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/27/proverbial-canary/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/hunting-adelies-1500.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hunting-Adelies.1500</image:title><image:caption>Adelie penguins hunting for food. Photo by: J. Weller.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2014-04-26T07:42:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/20/1906/</loc><lastmod>2012-11-03T12:49:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/20/1899/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mv5bmtcwnjc1ntizmv5bml5banbnxkftztcwmzy2mdi2nq-_v1-_sy317_.jpg</image:loc><image:title>MV5BMTcwNjc1NTIzMV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzY2MDI2NQ@@._V1._SY317_</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T19:15:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/19/1837/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/amurleopardbig.jpg</image:loc><image:title>amurleopardbig</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120425140125-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120425140125-large</image:title><image:caption>First known camera trap photo of an Amur leopard in China. (Photo: Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-04T21:06:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/28/2892/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/61318027_010100074-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_61318027_010100074-1</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Common Dreams)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-29T06:07:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/26/the-winner-is/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-26T19:19:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/25/monkey-mascot/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/langur.jpg</image:loc><image:title>langur</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T11:51:21+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/25/freed/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-25T15:54:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/17/rays/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rays-migrate.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rays migrate</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Sandra Critelli)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-25T05:52:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/24/ugh/</loc><lastmod>2012-11-01T22:30:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/24/news-to-me/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/500a-fig__5_leopard_capture075.jpg</image:loc><image:title>500a-FIG__5_Leopard_Capture075</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/500a-cheetah-capture-lorez.jpg</image:loc><image:title>500a-Cheetah-capture-LoRez</image:title><image:caption>Asiatic Cheetah in the Bafgh Protected Area of Yazd Province in Iran. &#13;
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</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/irancheetah_kavi.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Iran cheetah</image:title><image:caption>Iran Cheetah (Photo: Kavi)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-24T19:17:07+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/24/raincoats/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/locations__0002_crpl.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Ben's lola and kinshasa 4/3/12 - 0088</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/12-october-2012-022.jpg</image:loc><image:title>12 October 2012</image:title><image:caption>Centre de Rehabilitation des Primates de Lwiro </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T03:51:41+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/22/autopsies/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/rr_stationery_header.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rr_stationery_header</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-08T16:43:06+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/22/for-profit-torture/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/prftarmptsqdzyg-556x304-nopad.jpg</image:loc><image:title>laboratory monkey.</image:title><image:caption>Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratory. (Photo: PETA)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-23T07:20:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/21/2779/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ht_cisco_the_dog_killed_thg_120416_wg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cisco.</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-07T09:00:27+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/19/tiger-tourism-back-on/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/article-2218652-1588a4a1000005dc-539_470x288.jpg</image:loc><image:title>article-2218652-1588A4A1000005DC-539_470x288</image:title><image:caption>Protected parks in India offer the opportunity to spot the elusive cats.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-02T12:58:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/31/sanctuary-war/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/map-indias-tiger-reserves-001.png</image:loc><image:title>Map-Indias-tiger-reserves-001</image:title><image:caption>India’s tiger reserves.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/a3442a015935d8814bac1222b09820ce.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>India Tiger Tourism</image:title><image:caption>India tiger park</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T18:26:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/31/1158/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/p-byrne-1957-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>P Byrne 1957 1</image:title><image:caption>Peter Byrne, Nepal, 1957 (credit: Peter Byrne)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/book-jacket.jpg</image:loc><image:title>book jacket</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/tiger.jpg</image:loc><image:title>tiger</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/peter.jpg</image:loc><image:title>peter</image:title><image:caption>Peter Byrne - Last of the Safari generation.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T12:42:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/19/2699/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lewa-dsc_0266-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>lewa.DSC_0266.568</image:title><image:caption>Black rhinoceros in Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. (Photo: LWC)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-11-06T12:57:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/17/conservation-drones/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-28T00:16:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/18/wolf-rally/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/josh-fields-with-the-wolf-he-took-while-elk-hunting-in-the-north-fork.jpg</image:loc><image:title>josh-fields-with-the-wolf-he-took-while-elk-hunting-in-the-north-fork</image:title><image:caption>Josh Fields with wolf he took while elk hunting in the North Fork. </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T03:07:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/17/langur/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/chongzuo2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>chongzuo2</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Peking University Chongzuo Biodiversity Research Institute)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/langur-11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>langur-11</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Peking University Chongzuo Biodiversity Research Institute)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/white-headed-langur-3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>White-headed-langur.</image:title><image:caption>White-headed langur. (http://www.greenpacks.org/)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T05:21:34+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/16/wolves-redux/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-16T16:42:48+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/16/rubber-dodo-award/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-19T16:53:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/14/2545/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/507907e0bf6dd-preview-6202.jpg</image:loc><image:title>507907e0bf6dd.preview-620</image:title><image:caption>Trail camera photo taken southeast of Tucson, Arizona in September, 2012, identified by Arizona state game officials as a jaguar. (Photo: Arizona Game and Fish Dept)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jaguar-3-4502.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jaguar.3.450</image:title><image:caption>Border King in the Animas Mountains, March 7, 1996. (Photo: Warner Glenn)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/macho-b-jaguar-in-snare-218092.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Macho B jaguar in snare, 2:18:09</image:title><image:caption>Macho B snared, Feb. 18, 2009. (Photo: AZ Dept Fish and Game)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/images.jpeg</image:loc><image:title>images</image:title><image:caption>Macho B.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/wildcats-articlelarge2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WILDCATS-articleLarge</image:title><image:caption>A jaguar along an isolated canyon in Sonora State in Mexico. (Photo: Earth Island Institute)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/macho-b-jaguar-in-snare-218091.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Macho B jaguar in snare, 2:18:09</image:title><image:caption>Macho B snared, Feb. 18, 2009. (Photo: AZ Dept Fish and Game)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jaguar-3-4501.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jaguar.3.450</image:title><image:caption>Border King in the Animas Mountains, March 7, 1996. (Photo: Warner Glenn)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jaguar-2-6001.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jaguar.2.600</image:title><image:caption>Macho B wandering the border in southern Arizona. (Photo: Emil McCain)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/wildcats-articlelarge1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>WILDCATS-articleLarge</image:title><image:caption>A jaguar along an isolated canyon in Sonora State in Mexico. (Photo: Earth Island Institute)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/jaguar-prowl-main-6311.jpg</image:loc><image:title>jaguar-prowl-main-631</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T04:41:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/12/flo/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/flos-records-jpg4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flo's records jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/flos-records-jpg3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flo's records jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/flos-records-jpg2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flo's records jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/apf2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>APF2</image:title><image:caption>Flo in an outdoor enclosure at APF.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/flos-records-jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flo's records jpg</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/flos-records-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Flo's records jpg</image:title><image:caption>Flo's records.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-02-09T04:50:49+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/11/inching-upward/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lears_macaw_12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lears_macaw_(1)</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Elis Simpson)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/643px-anodorhynchus_leari_by_edward_lear1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>643px-Anodorhynchus_leari_by_Edward_Lear</image:title><image:caption>Edward Lear (1812-1888) - original painting.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lears_macaw_11.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lears_macaw_(1)</image:title><image:caption>(Photo: Elis Simpson)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/220px-distribuicao-geografica-anodorhynchus-lean.png</image:loc><image:title>220px-Distribuicao-geografica-anodorhynchus-lean</image:title><image:caption>Range of Lear’s Macaw.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/643px-anodorhynchus_leari_by_edward_lear.jpg</image:loc><image:title>643px-Anodorhynchus_leari_by_Edward_Lear</image:title><image:caption>Edward Lear (1812-1888) - original painting. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/lears_macaw_1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lears_macaw_(1)</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Elis Simpson</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2013-04-10T04:05:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/10/night-shift/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/62651983_62650744.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_62651983_62650744</image:title><image:caption>Study co-author Neil Carter spent two seasons setting motion-detecting camera traps for tigers.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/62651982_62650684.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_62651982_62650684</image:title><image:caption>Tiger in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T02:07:09+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/09/the-japanese-are-killing-whales-for-research-too/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/800px-beluga03.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Beluga03</image:title><image:caption>Beluga at Atlanta aquarium. (Photo: Greg Hume)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T14:12:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/07/my-favorite-wolf/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ohman100712jpg-830809db0cc9734d.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ohman100712jpg-830809db0cc9734d</image:title><image:caption>Jack Ohman, The Oregonian.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T12:31:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/06/war-on-wolves/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/howling-wolf-img_assist_custom-600x594.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Howling-wolf.img_assist_custom-600x594</image:title><image:caption>Grey wolf (photo: Retron)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/092712wolfpackalphamale-580x325.jpg</image:loc><image:title>092712wolfpackalphamale-580x325</image:title><image:caption>A tracker is put on the alpha wolf, who later leads his pack to its demise. (Photo: KTVB)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T03:28:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/05/cases-were-watching/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-29T05:43:14+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/05/i-am-a-bush/</loc><lastmod>2012-10-28T19:08:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/04/six-ways-to-help-elephants/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/courtship_3_crp.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Courtship_3_crp</image:title><image:caption>“Courtship” Elephant Voices.org.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T01:38:38+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/04/bat-tracking/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/120529181233-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120529181233-large</image:title><image:caption>Little brown bats hibernate in mines and caves and eat mosquitoes and other insects. (Photo: Laura Kruger)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T00:12:44+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/10/03/recreating-the-past/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/aurochs-harder.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Aurochs-Harder</image:title><image:caption>"The Aurochs" by Heinrich Harder (1858-1935), probably created in 1920. </image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/aurochs-cave-painting.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aurochs-cave-painting</image:title><image:caption>Lascaux, France, around 17,000 years ago.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/400px-aurochse.jpg</image:loc><image:title>400px-Aurochse</image:title><image:caption>Auroch - Bos primigenius.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/auroch_0208.jpg</image:loc><image:title>auroch_0208</image:title><image:caption>Modern-day aurochs "heck" descendant in France. (Photo: Dominique Faget / AFP)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/aurochs_1560693c.jpg</image:loc><image:title>aurochs_1560693c</image:title><image:caption>Aurochs are depicted in ochre and charcoal in paintings found on the walls of cave galleries such as those at Lascaux in France. 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Rick Perry to stop Texas Parks and Wildlife from hunting wild burros in Big Bend Ranch State Park (AP Photo/Eric Gay)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1e67c72b9e2148d990af377ad687248a_l.jpg</image:loc><image:title>1e67c72b9e2148d990af377ad687248a_L</image:title><image:caption>When Zach Zniewski moved to Texas from Minnesota 12 years ago, he didn’t anticipate caring for five donkeys. Today, Zniewski, 63, is an advocate for the animals as a member of the Wild Burro Protection League. The group is opposed to the Texas Parks &amp; Wildlife Department’s policy of killing the burros in Big Bend Ranch State Park. (Photo by Sandy Carson)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T03:35:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/30/costa-rica-wildlife/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/panthera-onca-proyecto-caminos-sbbd1-credited-568.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Panthera-onca-Proyecto-Caminos-SBBD1-credited.568</image:title><image:caption>First camera trap photo of a jaguar taken by Panthera in a deforested area of Costa Rica’s Barbilla-Destierro SubCorridor. (Photo: Panthera)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T00:24:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/30/poisoned-vulture-restaurants/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cambodian-vulutres.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Cambodian Vulutres</image:title><image:caption>Cambodian vultures (photo: : A. Michaud)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T17:49:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/29/pets-on-death-row/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/pets-on-death-row.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Pets on death row</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/373279_155925874419253_1800520780_n.jpg</image:loc><image:title>373279_155925874419253_1800520780_n</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-28T18:29:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/28/sidestepping-the-chimp-act-4/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image0013.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image001</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/image0012.jpg</image:loc><image:title>image001</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lolitaselm_af6.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Lolitaselm_AF</image:title><image:caption>Sanctuary. (Photo: NEAVS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T03:22:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/26/keiko/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/keiko16.jpg</image:loc><image:title>keiko16</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Sam Lobo.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/reinoaventu.jpg</image:loc><image:title>reinoaventu</image:title><image:caption>Reino Aventura</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/4684751355_4d58b8255b.jpg</image:loc><image:title>4684751355_4d58b8255b</image:title><image:caption>Keiko pool under construction</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/steve_keikoheimaey_cd.jpg</image:loc><image:title>steve_keikoheimaey_cd</image:title><image:caption>Keiko and his longtime keeper Stephen Claussen in Iceland (Photo:stephenclaussenmemorial.com)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/keiko13.jpg</image:loc><image:title>keiko13</image:title><image:caption>Keiko in Iceland (Photo: Orcalover555)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/large_steve.jpg</image:loc><image:title>large_steve</image:title><image:caption>Keiko's teeth are checked at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport in 1998. (Photo: Don Ryan/AP)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/190522-1020-a.jpg</image:loc><image:title>190522.1020.A</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/keiko18.jpg</image:loc><image:title>keiko18</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Sam Lobo</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2020-05-22T01:11:01+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/24/horse-tripping/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/11253995-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11253995-large</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/11253990-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11253990-large</image:title><image:caption>horse tripping</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-29T17:43:11+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/24/they-always-pay/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/22disunionhorse-img-blog427.jpg</image:loc><image:title>22disunionhorse-img-blog427</image:title><image:caption>“Dead Horse of Confederate Colonel; both killed at Battle of Antietam,” by Alexander Gardner</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-25T17:45:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/22/thousand-or-so-to-go/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/chimp1_106261-99f1253c799cd5daae5734c6657dde2cb07cf9d7-s41.jpg</image:loc><image:title>chimp1_106261</image:title><image:caption>Humane Society of the United States</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T17:41:57+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/23/epidemic/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/59600456_10panoramaivorywars_workingtitle.jpg</image:loc><image:title>_59600456_10panoramaivorywars_workingtitle</image:title><image:caption>Malaysia ivory (photo: BBC panorama)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/photo_21.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Photo_2</image:title><image:caption>Ivory poaching Africa (WWF-James Morgan</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T17:41:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/23/good-deed/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bazingo-and-vu-484px.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bazingo-and-vu-484px</image:title><image:caption>Bazingo swims behind Vu at Point Reyes on August 23, 2012. (Photo: Jimmi Johnson - Creativity Center)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bazingo-post-surgery-300px.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bazingo-post-surgery-300px</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Ingrid Overgard - The Marine Mammal Center</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bazingo-release-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bazingo-release-1</image:title><image:caption>Photo: Jimmi Johnson - Creativity Center</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-23T20:43:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/13/1654/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gumprechts_green_pitviper__trimeresurus__.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gumprechts_green_pitviper__trimeresurus__</image:title><image:caption>Gumprechts green pitviper (Trimeresurus gumprechti). Photo: © Rene Ries.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-22T18:45:40+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/19/true-blood/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/vampire.jpg</image:loc><image:title>vampire</image:title><image:caption>All three known species of vampire bats inhabit Belize.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-23T05:14:12+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/19/american-journal-of-primatology/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120821162511-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120821162511-large</image:title><image:caption>Young, motherless chimps need close contact. (Photo: Emory University)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T03:59:42+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/18/arthur-and-phoenix/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/art_phoen_color.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Art_Phoen_Color</image:title><image:caption>Arthur and Phoenix (credit: New England Anti-vivisection Society)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-20T20:59:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/19/soundscape/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/120918154103-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120918154103-large</image:title><image:caption>Aldo Leopold at his Sauk County shack in about 1940.  (Photo: University of Wisconsin Digital Archives)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-19T17:50:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/16/western-wolf-update/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gray-wolves1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gray-wolves</image:title><image:caption>gray wolf</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gray-wolves.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gray-wolves</image:title><image:caption>gray wolf</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rs9614_wolf_yellowstone_doublejwebers_flickr_fpwc_commercial_use_ok.jpg</image:loc><image:title>gray wolf, Yellowstone, Wyoming</image:title><image:caption>yellowstone wolf.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-18T22:04:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/17/no-way-out/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/11lion_span-articlelarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>11LION_SPAN-articleLarge</image:title><image:caption>A lioness crawls through a hole in a fence in the suburbs of Nairobi, less than a mile from Nairobi National Park. 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(photo: Dan Bennett)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/424px-bear_bile_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>424px-Bear_bile_01</image:title><image:caption>product of Sun Bear Bile Extraction Operation in Mong La, Shan, Myanmar (photo: Dan Bennett)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/800px-bear_bile_product_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Bear_bile_product_01</image:title><image:caption>product of Sun Bear Bile Extraction Operation in Mong La, Shan, Myanmar (photo: Dan Bennett)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/the-truth-about-bear-farming-in-china.jpg</image:loc><image:title>The-truth-about-bear-farming-in-China</image:title><image:caption>thebeartruth.org</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bear1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bear1</image:title><image:caption>photo: thebeartruth.org</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bear-in-cage1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bear-in-cage</image:title><image:caption>bile bear in a “crush cage” on Huizhou Farm, China (Photo: Asian Animal Protection Network - http://aapn.org/)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/800px-sun_bear_bile_extration_01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Sun_Bear_bile_extration_01</image:title><image:caption>Sun Bear Bile Extraction Operation in Mong La, Shan, Myanmar. 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(Photo: ZUMA Press)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-12T18:49:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/10/1564/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rahat-july-1112.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rahat-july-111</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rahat-july-1111.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rahat-july-111</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rahat-july-121.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rahat-july-121</image:title><image:caption>street dog treated by Animal Rahat</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/rahat-july-111.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rahat-july-111</image:title><image:caption>Animal Rahat  volunteer at work in India</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-12T18:48:33+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/07/global-federation-of-animal-sanctuaries/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/stany-nyandwi-300x201.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Stany-Nyandwi-300x201</image:title><image:caption>Stany Nyandwi (photo: PASA)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-11T06:25:22+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/06/kipunji/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/080728192930-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>080728192930-large</image:title><image:caption>Kipunji at play in the highlands of Tanzania (photo: Tim Davenport/WCS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-11T00:09:04+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/06/war-zone-animal/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/grahm-jones-male-markhor-and-kid-1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Grahm Jones male markhor and kid 1</image:title><image:caption>The markhor is making a remarkable comeback in Pakistan. (photo: Grahm Jones/Columbus Zoo)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-11T00:07:53+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/08/uganda-december-2011/</loc><lastmod>2012-09-11T00:05:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/08/orangutan-forest/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/sumatra_2176.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Sumatran Orangutan</image:title><image:caption>Sumatran Orangutan in the Leuser ecosystem (photo by Rhett A. 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Fellows)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/liben-lark-in-habitat.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Liben-lark-in-habitat</image:title><image:caption>Sidamo Lark (photo: Paul F. Donald)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/b_gorgeted_puffleg_male_alex_cortes.jpg</image:loc><image:title>b_gorgeted_puffleg_male_alex_cortes</image:title><image:caption>Gorgeted Puffleg (photo: Alex Cortes)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-05T04:50:25+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/05/why-bears/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/f57da1ef-2a62-4118-a52d-c360a40892c4news-ap-org_t620.jpg</image:loc><image:title>f57da1ef-2a62-4118-a52d-c360a40892c4news.ap.org_t620</image:title><image:caption>(PHOTO: Ricardas Vitkus / AP) </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-09T00:43:50+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/02/acoustic-smog/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/permit_605-1904_4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>permit_605-1904_4</image:title><image:caption>Acoustic Smog</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-06T07:06:32+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/24/high-in-galicia/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/120711074228-large.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120711074228-large</image:title><image:caption>Iberian wolf (Photo: Netícola - Raúl A) </image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-06T00:05:23+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/15/sumatran-rhinos-winking-out/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo_1344520038932-1-02.jpg</image:loc><image:title>photo_1344520038932-1-0</image:title><image:caption>(photo: Leuser International Foundation)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo_1344520038932-1-01.jpg</image:loc><image:title>photo_1344520038932-1-0</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/photo_1344520038932-1-0.jpg</image:loc><image:title>photo_1344520038932-1-0</image:title><image:caption>(photo; the Leuser International Foundation)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-06T00:04:05+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/22/potentially-nervous-moves-to-a-shoot-off-site/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/img_1092.jpg</image:loc><image:title>IMG_1092</image:title><image:caption>Potentially nervous moves to a shoot off-site.&#13;
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</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-12-12T07:48:17+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/15/beagle-liberation/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/beagle-rescue-italy.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Beagle Rescue Italy</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/beagle-rescue4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>beagle rescue</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/beagle-rescue3.jpg</image:loc><image:title>beagle rescue</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/beagle-rescue2.jpg</image:loc><image:title>beagle rescue</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:59:24+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/15/or-7/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/628x4719.jpg</image:loc><image:title>628x471</image:title><image:caption>(California Dept. of Fish and Game)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/628x4718.jpg</image:loc><image:title>628x471</image:title></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/628x4717.jpg</image:loc><image:title>628x471</image:title><image:caption>CA Department of Fish and Game</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:58:31+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/16/the-face-of-extinction/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2012s_most_spine_tingling_photos_so_far_640_06.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Wonder</image:title></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:57:55+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/21/profit-before-animals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/4083d54f4eb6964fd99221147f6d.jpg</image:loc><image:title>4083d54f4eb6964fd99221147f6d</image:title><image:caption>Sonja, a female walrus show in an April photo, has suffered eye damage that former trainers blame on poor water conditions at Marineland.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/b3112292474c943ce789008c24e9.jpg</image:loc><image:title>b3112292474c943ce789008c24e9</image:title><image:caption>A February 2012 photo shows sea lions Sandy and Baker (left). The pair had to be pulled repeatedly from the water and confined in dry cages, in one case for more than two months, to limit further harm to their already damaged eyes. Videos shot in 2011 and 2012 shows them writhing in pain or plunging their heads into a single bucket of clean water.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/94fe0b2840bf84bb5985da34a664.jpg</image:loc><image:title>94fe0b2840bf84bb5985da34a664</image:title><image:caption>Phil Demers, a former animal trainer at Marineland, is shown with female walrus Smooshi several years ago. Demers left Marineland in May after 12 years, worn down by his inability to help animals in his care.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/a88dac444ce18b771ccbe4718d96.jpg</image:loc><image:title>a88dac444ce18b771ccbe4718d96</image:title><image:caption>Sea lion Baker, shown in an April photo, has no lens in his left eye. Baker had to be pulled repeatedly from the water and confined in a dry cage, in one case for more than two months, to limit further harm to his already damaged eyes.</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/ea5aa35b4b178b5362b8ce066e81.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ea5aa35b4b178b5362b8ce066e81</image:title><image:caption>Larry, the harbour seal with “an amazing little personality” who arrived at Marineland about eight years ago is now a shadow of his former self. 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(Credit: University of Central Florida)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:56:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/21/keep-on-eye-on-shells-plans-to-drill-in-the-arctic/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/asp_nicklen_paul_p0951.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ASP_nicklen_paul_p095</image:title><image:caption>Narwhals, Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada (photo: Paul Nicklen)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/asp_nicklen_paul_p095.jpg</image:loc><image:title>ASP_nicklen_paul_p095</image:title><image:caption>Barwhals, Lancaster Sound, Nunavut, Canada (photo: Paul Nicklen)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:56:03+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/23/afghanistan/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/26angi-articlelarge.jpg</image:loc><image:title>26ANGI-articleLarge</image:title><image:caption>Wildlife Conservation Society</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:54:36+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/23/bligh-reef/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2400062101_8f8d7839bc_z1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2400062101_8f8d7839bc_z</image:title><image:caption>Workers struggle to clean oil off the beach of Big Smith Island. (Photo: Jim Brickett)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/2400062101_8f8d7839bc_z.jpg</image:loc><image:title>2400062101_8f8d7839bc_z</image:title><image:caption>Workers struggle to clean oil off the beach of Big Smith Island. Photo: Jim Brickett</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/exval.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Exval</image:title><image:caption>Exxon Valdez (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-10-05T15:22:58+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/27/climate-change-and-the-oryx/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/safari_wildlife_heroes_arabian_oryx.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Safari_Wildlife_Heroes_arabian_oryx</image:title><image:caption>The long, slender horns of the oryx, carried by both males and females, give the oryx the nickname "spear antelope." This is the most highly specialized oryx species for living in true desert extremes. Their light color reflects the desert heat and sunlight, and they can erect their hair on cold winter mornings to capture warmth to hold in their thick undercoats. Their legs also darken in the winter to absorb more of the sun's heat. &#13;
This antelope of the Arabian Peninsula and Sinai Desert became extinct in the wild by the late 1960s, mostly due to hunters with high-powered rifles. To save the species, nine Arabian oryx from private collections in Oman, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, as well as from the London Zoo, were moved to the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona. A second breeding group of three oryx, from a zoo in Saudi Arabia, was started at the Los Angeles Zoo, and in the 1970s animals from both of these herds were sent to the Safari Park. As of 2010, 342 Arabian oryx have been born at the San Diego Safari Park, with many returned to Oman and Jordan for reintroduction in their native range.</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:05:52+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/27/1021/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/rhino_12.jpg</image:loc><image:title>rhino_12</image:title><image:caption>South African rhino (Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:05:00+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/28/welfare-ranching/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/white_mtn_pilotbutte.jpg</image:loc><image:title>White_Mtn_pilotbutte</image:title><image:caption>ON WYOMING'S RANGE, WATER IS SCARCE BUT WELFARE IS PLENTY</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:03:43+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/30/marbles/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cty-abused-dog-jpg1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cty-ABUSED-DOG-jpg</image:title><image:caption>Marlbes</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/cty-abused-dog-jpg.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cty-ABUSED-DOG-jpg</image:title><image:caption>Marbles</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:03:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/31/lead/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/condor-nestling-300.jpg</image:loc><image:title>condor-nestling-300</image:title><image:caption>Condors are slow to reproduce--females lay one egg every other year. (Photo by Gavin Emmons)</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/120625160400.jpg</image:loc><image:title>120625160400</image:title><image:caption>The California condor is the largest land bird in North America, with a wingspan of up to 9-1/2 feet. (Photo: Gavin Emmons)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:02:19+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/01/what-does-it-take/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/19184418_bg4.jpg</image:loc><image:title>19184418_BG4</image:title><image:caption>CJ</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T23:00:10+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/01/manifest-destiny/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/graywolf_garykramer_usfws.jpg</image:loc><image:title>GrayWolf_USFWS_FPWC_2_HIGHRES.tif</image:title><image:caption>gray wolf (photo; Gary Kramer, USFWS)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T22:59:30+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/05/iucn-red-book/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/800px-tragulus_javanicus_jerusalem_zoo.jpg</image:loc><image:title>800px-Tragulus_javanicus_jerusalem_zoo</image:title><image:caption>The Java mouse-deer, aka lesser Malay mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus), is a species of even-toed ungulate in the Tragulidae family. At maturity it is about the size of a rabbit. It is found in forests in Java and perhaps Bali. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. (photo: Lev G)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-05T17:52:39+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/09/02/1221/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/cheetah-world-speed-record-set_57554_600x450.jpg</image:loc><image:title>cheetah-world-speed-record-set_57554_600x450</image:title><image:caption>Sarah the cheetah shattered the world record for the standing 100-meter dash, clocking a time of 5.95 seconds. (Photo:  Ken Geiger, National Geographic)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-02T19:36:54+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/31/1127/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dogs.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dogs</image:title><image:caption>A Pet Free World (Photo: Deanne Fitzmaurice/Corbis)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-08-31T22:58:37+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/30/wild-animals/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/bruno-yawning-556x417.jpg</image:loc><image:title>bruno-yawning-556x417</image:title><image:caption>An adult male chimp is five times as strong as a human (credit: International Primate Protection Society)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-09-01T06:38:35+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/23/lonesome-george/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/lonesomegeorge_flickrcommons_davey_fpwc_200.jpg</image:loc><image:title>LonesomeGeorge_FlickrCommons_Davey_FPWC_200</image:title><image:caption>LonesomeGeorge (FlickrCommons-Davey)</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-08-24T02:24:46+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/22/hooves-paws/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/reba5_small1.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Reba5_small1</image:title><image:caption>Reba</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-08-22T18:57:47+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/20/slaughter-bound/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dscf37812.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dscf3781</image:title><image:caption>Habitat for Horses</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dscf37811.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dscf3781</image:title><image:caption>Habitat for Horses</image:caption></image:image><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/dscf3781.jpg</image:loc><image:title>dscf3781</image:title><image:caption>Habitat for Horses</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-08-22T16:34:56+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/2012/08/19/the-hidden-death-2011/</loc><image:image><image:loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/hidden-death-20111.jpg</image:loc><image:title>Hidden Death 20111</image:title><image:caption>Tommaso Ausili</image:caption></image:image><lastmod>2012-08-19T23:44:02+00:00</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url><url><loc>https://michaeleltonmcleod.com</loc><changefreq>daily</changefreq><priority>1.0</priority><lastmod>2025-06-13T20:40:30+00:00</lastmod></url></urlset>
