10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God. There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!); It’s a huge scope for a 338-page book.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

Being sacred may not have been that great for the Ibis in Egypt though – apparently, mummies of the Ibis are by far the most common bird mummies found there. was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ). Possibly also for doing the dishes.

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Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Birds, because they fly, don’t store fat without paying a huge cost, which might in turn make them more vulnerable to variations in both food supply and thermal stress than ground dwelling animals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J.,

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