Critter News
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university research animal research undercover investigation PETA. I say "good for her!"
10,000 Birds
APRIL 13, 2015
It lies adjacent to Nechisar National Park, where the lone wing of the mysterious Nechisar Nightjar was collected in 1990. The Hamar women are immediately identifiable by their brick red hair braids, beautiful beaded jewelry and animal skin clothes designed to imitate gazelles.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. There were probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of species of fish-with-feet, and one population gave rise to the so-called “tetrapods,” animals with skeletons, arms, and legs, including modern snakes and living gorillas. “Are
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
He had the habit of asking very similar question about the animals featured in his zoology lectures, including basic questions like how big they are, what limits physiology puts on their geographic range, etc. For instance, among animals, booby and noddy combined probably represents the majority of the biomass of the somewhat unusual St.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
Birds (or other animals) need to be whacked on the head with some over the top obvious signal of something important or they won’t notice it. This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Because its extremely difficult to conclusively demonstrate what any nonhuman animal is thinking or feeling, this lack (failure?) But I digress.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
You may have already read The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us by Richard O. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us. By Richard O. Doubleday, 2017, 448p.
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