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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Meanwhile I have a few random thoughts. And smaller.

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Is There Danger of Elitism in the Animal Rights Movement?

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This post is inspired by a thought-provoking piece on the Provoked blog (clearly a good name for a blog!) I believe that we have to be inclusive in the animal rights movement and attack the system using all kinds of methods in all sorts of fields. Economics, science, literature, film, politics, law, etc.

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The Bird 10K Project

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I was told when I first started blogging here at 10,000 Birds that I was never to use the short form, “10K.” Given these attributes, birds continue to be widely used as models for studies on population genetics, neurobiology, development and animal conservation. 1 Genome-scale phylogeny of birds.

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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in November 2021

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Japanese T**s have their own claim to fame – they are the first wild animal species with experimental evidence for compositional syntax. In an old man, such hairs coming out of the ears or nose would be considered extremely ugly. Somehow, for this bird it is ok. They also look fairly cute. The Northern Lapwing is Near Threatened.

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Why Humans Are the Only Ones with Rights

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I'm reposting what I wrote as I rarely do any original writing for this blog anymore. In the matter of science, and there are varying levels of this viewpoint, the human is the most advanced of creatures. Someone posted a question about why humans have human rights and whether they should considering that others do not. I responded.

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