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10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2016
Last year scientists in Ethiopia discovered the jawbone of a 2.8 Had they been able to make the jawbone talk, no doubt its first words would be, “You can’t put a baby bird back in the nest, because the parents will smell your hands and abandon it.”. On to the avian world. million-year-old early human. Probably not.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2012
It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. Their nests are also a messy structure due to protective thorns on the outside, but the interior is constructed of softer grasses. Image taken in Kenya by Adam Riley.
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