Word: bulbul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...displaced native game fish from lakes and rivers by eating their food and their spawn. New threats come from the exotic species that escaped from rare-animal or fish farms: the ill-tempered Asian walking catfish, the South American piranha and India's citrus fruit-eating red-whiskered bulbul -to mention just a few. They prove over and over again that most alien species can quickly adapt to and thrive in a new habitat where there is an abundance of food and a dearth of natural enemies...
...life is to immortalize his friend in a biography. His next thought is that it is damned inconvenient for a biographer to have a living subject messing things up. To reveal more would be unfair. Significantly, both little boys love to hear Edwin's father recite Abdul, the Bulbul Amir, but Father can never remember how the poem ends...