Abu Dhbi, February 09: Under the watchful eyes of a white-coated doctor, two orderlies in scrubs sedate the patient on a paper-covered stainless steel table, then begin the procedure -- trimming her vital hunting tools. One of the orderlies carefully snips the brown and white falcon's wicked, two-centimetre (one-inch) talons, then files them back to points. Twenty-one other falcons, their heads covered in small leather hoods, sit across the room on perches...
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