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CLASSIFIED Monday 18 SepteMber 2017
Graceful menace: dOCTOR ON dUTY
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States take aim at non-native swans Dr. Esschendal
Tel. 586 0334
San Nicolas
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FOR SALE Tel. 584 5155
Divi Golf & Beach
week 35 9/2-9/9 studio $3,950 EMERGENCIA 911
week 35 9/2-9/9 2 room
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week 36 9/9-9/16 2 room suite
$4,600
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ORANJESTAD 527-3140
phone 5086510016 (565 9394) NOORD 527-3200
email: rmjmw@aol.com STA. CRUZ 527-2900
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FOR SALE FIRE DEPT. 115
Divi Phoenix FIRE DEPT. 582-1108
week 34 8/27-9/2 Studio $3,450 HOSPITAL 527-4000
week 35 9/2-9/9 1 bedr $4,350 DENTAL CLINIC 587-9850
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582-1234
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phone 508 6510016 (565 9394)
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swim in the duckweed-covered Lullwater in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park in New York. The _________________________________208065 PHARMACY
graceful mute swan is targeted for destruction by wildlife managers in New York and TIME SHARE FOR SALE Oranjestad:
other states. Divi Phoenix Resort del Pueblo Tel. 582 1253
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Associated Press lation on Lake Ontario. Like parents.“I see them in Pros- weeks left. deed
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — With zebra mussels and Asian pect Park when I walk my price $37,000 for 2 weeks. INFORMATION 118
its snow-white plumage longhorned beetles, mute dog or run,” said Jane Sey- kazalos@aol.com TAXI-TAS 587-5900
and elegant posture, mute swans are classified in New mour, a Friends of Animals 215 9067397 PROF. TAXI 588-0035
swans are exalted in Euro- York as nuisance invaders. employee who lives near _________________________________208098 TAXI D.T.S. 587-2300
pean ballets and fairy tales Biologists say they deplete the Brooklyn park that has SERVICE AUA 583-3232
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beauty. But to many wild- etation with their voracious “People get close to them
life biologists, they are ag- feeding, leaving less food and take pictures. They re- CrUISe SHIp
gressive and destructive in- and cover for other water- ally are an attraction.”But
vaders in U.S. habitats and fowl and fish.Unlike North there is an ugly side.
must be wiped out. America’s native tundra Michigan’s wildlife agency
Native to Europe, the mute and trumpeter swans, calls mute swans “one of
swan has multiplied in New mute swans — named for the world’s most aggres-
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York, the upper Midwest being less vocal than other sive waterfowl species,” Celebrity equinox
and along the Atlantic swans — aren’t migratory, attacking native trumpeter
coast since it was imported have orange rather than swans, loons, ducks and Aruba Airport 524-2424
in the 1800s to adorn parks black bills and hold their other waterfowl. The agen- American Airlines 582-2700
and opulent estates. Cit- necks in graceful S-curves. cy says it gets reports every Avianca 588-0059
ing threats to native wild- They’re also far more com- year of mute swan attacks Aruba Airlines 583-8300
life, plants and unwary hu- fortable around humans, on canoeists, kayakers and Jet Blue 588-2244
582-7896
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mans, six states now have gliding regally across urban people who get too close Venezolana 583-7674
swan-removal policies that ponds with gray offspring to shoreline nests.q Aruba Foundation
range from egg-shaking to For those Visually Incapasitated
shooting or gassing adult Tel. 582-5051
birds.New York is now on AL-ANON group
the third draft of its anti- Sabana Liber #8, Noord
swan program. While less Tel. 736-2952 or 593-7081
lethal than the original FUNDACIONS
2013 plan calling for elimi- Respetami
nating all of the state’s Tel. 582-4433
free-ranging mute swans
by 2025, it has nonetheless Centro Diabetic Arubano
Tel. 524-8888
drawn angry squawks from
animal lovers who just want Narcotics Anonymous
the birds to be left alone. Tel. 583-8989
“We abhor the plan,” said QUOTA Club
Priscilla Feral, president Tel. 525-2672
of Connecticut-based
Friends of Animals. “We Women in Difficulties
think it’s attitude, not good Foundation
Tel. 583-5400
science, that’s driving their
agenda.” Bloodbank Aruba
Most of the state’s esti- Tel. 587-0002
mated 1,700 mute swans
are in the New York City