Taste as a tool
AVMA News
APRIL 29, 2024
Researchers at Hill’s Pet Nutrition and elsewhere have spent decades gathering data about food palatability and investigating why pets have certain taste preferences.
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AVMA News
APRIL 29, 2024
Researchers at Hill’s Pet Nutrition and elsewhere have spent decades gathering data about food palatability and investigating why pets have certain taste preferences.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Hawaiian Crows Use Tools. From Nature, “ Discovery of species-wide tool use in the Hawaiian crow “: Only a handful of bird species are known to use foraging tools in the wild. Amongst them, the New Caledonian crow ( Corvus moneduloides ) stands out with its sophisticated tool-making skills. Although the ‘Alal?
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2022
I have always assumed that scientific researchers can overlay weather information on checklists for their research, but absent manual entry, that such information would not be available to me. I was impressed that this tool existed, so I emailed the creator of RainCrow, Parker Davis , to get the story behind its development.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
HumaneSpot.org is a unique research website tailored to the needs of animal advocates. They] offer a wide range of useful tools and resources, including nearly 1,000 independent research studies relating to animal issues. Thanks to Animalblog for the heads up. These people are serious.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
With climate change appearing to expand the skeeters’ range, according to recent research in Science Advances , the birds have fewer safe places to hide. Further, a new scientific study suggests that these crows may have an advantage over other avians—like their cousins, the New Caledonian Crows , they are revealed to be tool users.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. Their goal?
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 28, 2014
The use of tool by animals is surprisingly rare. I find fascinating the fact that Egyptian Vultures , New Caledonian Crows and Woodpecker Finches learned to use a tool with tremendous success. Among Woodpecker Finches, young birds quickly learn to use tools by watching how adult birds do it. Woodpecker Finch using a tool.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. Individuals or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no formal scientific training, perform research-related tasks such as observation, measurement, or computation.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2016
There’s no indication yet that the American Ornithological Union is considering lumping Blue-wings and Golden-wings into one species, but according to the researchers, a conservation case can be made for doing so, as both birds favor similar habitats. On the opposite end of the spectrum is new research considering Yellow-rumped Warblers.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2014
Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month when bird researchers from several nations announced that the species formerly known as Spotted Wren-Babbler ( Spelaeornis formosus ) — a tiny, secretive bird of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas to southeast China — is not a Spelaeornis wren-babbler at all.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Osborn Chelsea Green Publishing, a company committed to “publishing as a tool for social change and ecological stewardship,” has done an excellent job designing and packaging Feather Trails. Endangered. Extinction.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2017
But as Bill Bryson notes, he did make one great contribution to the world (beyond his anatomical contributions of course), his reconceptualisation of museums from places only of research to places of research and public entertainment and education.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 8, 2020
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
A number of research projects have sought to determine if some of these human brain abilities are found in other animals. And most recently, a team of researchers from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Austria have demonstrated that New Caledonian Crows understand UCAs. But that’s another story. The graph shows the results.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. Still, I wish I had prepared. I wish I had read this book.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 11, 2015
While drones have the potential be a great tool in the world of wildlife conservation, they can also pose a serious problem for the animals they’re trying to protect. In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2018
An array of tools ranging from geolocators to satellite trackers to depth measurers to miniature cameras have been employed by ornithologists and biologists over the past twenty years, yielding scads of information. Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds is a book about seabird research by a passionate seabird researcher.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
All sorts of tools are needed in this work, from highly technical reports to novels and popular nonfiction, and from localized accounts to vast overviews.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2017
eBird has a range of data exploration tools that, to my mind, exist help birders bird. ” I can’t just put this into Wikipedia – it’s original research. Wikipedia doesn’t allow that lest it be overrun with all manner of research proving feminism causes cancer. Nothing wrong with that.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. And let's not forget the required sanctimonious quote from an animal researcher “Our primates are essential partners in medical progress, as are mice, rats, guinea pigs and opossums. Tags: primates medical research. Oh brother.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 5, 2016
And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Armistead and Brian L.
Critter News
DECEMBER 30, 2008
Great research tool. There are 14,436 cases in the animal abuse database. You can search for all kinds of crimes against animals in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Spain. Amazing work.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 22, 2016
Tim Birkhead, a respected ornithologist with years of research under his belt, doesn’t quite achieve perfection with this book on the totality of that strange entity, the bird’s egg, but he makes a valiant effort of it and comes away with a very interesting book indeed.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. One part of this question can be answered with some very interesting recent research.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 14, 2010
It was through her research that she learned how chimpanzees make and use tools, eat meat and engage in war-like activity. Founded in 1977, the Jane Goodall Institute continues Dr. Goodall’s pioneering research on chimpanzee behavior—research that transformed scientific perceptions of the relationship between humans and animals.
Critter News
MARCH 27, 2009
Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. Tags: animal experimentation animal research EPA us.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
Originally organized by structure and ecology, they have been reclassified according to relationships discovered by DNA research. A Quick Guide To The Book is found on the inside front cover, a handy tool for going directly to the type of mushroom you’re researching (see top illustration). Hey, it’s not just us!).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2017
I love taxonomic research, speciation in birds was one of my primary subjects during my university days. This is about field identification tools. Look, I am definitely not part of the reason scientists were forced to march the streets recently. But this is not about the value and meaning of taxonomy.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2013
Planning for such a whirlwind tour became a monstrous research task. But first of all I want to tell you about two essential tools that I used which made this trip a success. There are more advanced models but I am not sure of their benefits; more research needed for my next trip. Garmin GPS and Garmin South American Map.
4 The Love Of Animals
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
Shark finning is the practice of removing fins from live sharks with sharp tools, and then tossing the shark back into the ocean. Claims for shark fins include relieving joint pain and curing cancer, though no research is available to back any of these claims. However, watching these shows on DIRECT.TV
4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 17, 2011
Scientific research shows that many animals are very intelligent and have sensory and motor abilities that dwarf ours. More research is needed, but initial studies by the Pine Street Foundation and others on using dogs for diagnosis are promising. They get much of their food using tools, and they do this better than chimpanzees.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 1, 2021
The designers employ graphic design tools of color, font, icon, and photographic illustration to produce pages that both look pleasing to the eye and help the user navigate the book. Using the icons to locate specific bird families takes a little getting used to, but if you do it often it works well as a finding tool. GRAPHIC DESIGN.
4 The Love Of Animals
JULY 16, 2013
With a little bit of research and practice, you can have your plan down pat in an afternoon. Pet Alert stickers are an incredibly important tool that save many lives each year. To spread awareness about this important topic, we here at BestBullySticks have partnered with the great folks at 4 The Love of Animals to host a giveaway!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2012
The cover of the book (not of Derek Lovitch) gives you some idea of the tools the better birder needs in the early 21st-century. And one of those tools is Geography. That’s NEXRAD radar map in the left binocular lens and a surface weather map on the right. He currently owns and runs Freeport Wild Bird Supply in Maine.)
Animal Person
JUNE 8, 2009
Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2018
” These comments make sense if you are familiar with the larger body of Howell’s critiques of molecular ornithological research as applied to taxonomic changes and of AOS taxonomic decisions in general. 16, below).” Sullivan works on eBird and digital projects at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2013
A little bit of research when I got home unraveled the ways of publishers here and in Great Britain. The accounts aim for specificity and authority; dates and locations of rarity sightings are given, and research articles on nesting and behavior are cited. How could I, the librarian, end up with an outdated field guide?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
Furthermore, Binford claimed, if we maintained ideas of recently studied modern human hunter-gatherers in our brains, as the model for ancient hominids who used tools (sometimes associated with bones) we would tend to see those foragers, more or less, in the archaeological record of our past, whether they were really there or not.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
The birding process is stripped to the essentials without losing the significance of important, sometimes complex ideas—migration, habitat, research, documentation, community. The focus is on learning by doing, with 12 Activity sections integrated within the eleven (ten plus a “bonus”) chapters.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
I realized a curious thing while researching some of the creatures in this guide–some of the common names given for the flying fish appear to have originated with co-author Steve N.G. Howell; I can’t find them anywhere else on the Internet. Pennsylvania is one of the most heavily birded states in the U.S.,
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
A Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp would provide a robust, parallel revenue stream for National Wildlife Refuges, while giving non-extractive users a funding tool and a stronger voice in habitat and wildlife decisions on our shared, public lands. It would be a separate but parallel and symbiotic addition to Refuge budgets.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 31, 2014
For decades researchers have made annual trips out to the Tortugas to catch Sooty Terns, attach tiny silver bands to their legs with unique identification numbers, and then set them free again. The park is home to not one, not two, but large three colonies of breeding seabirds: the Brown Noddy , Magnificent Frigatebird , and Sooty Tern.
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