10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! They feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in the dirt on offshore islands. You see, it is all connected. But I didn’t get to that either. million. .
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
There is a virtual flock of new and interesting bird science news all of the sudden, including the rediscovery of an extinct Bahama Nuthatch. It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting. Science did not let us solidify that claim.
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Reddit Animals
MAY 9, 2023
I posit a question here, because I'm not sure where it goes, and I suppose it is an animal thing. Is this just crackpot theory working here, maybe my brain trying to explain away something supernatural with science, pure conjecture or something entirely different? So, it died out. This is fact. Sasquatch aka: Gigantopithecus.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2022
Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.”
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009
I really believe the more people learn about what research animals go through, the more common decency becomes a factor. But how many animal research supporters (non-scientists) actually step into a room and observe an experiment? How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? It upsets them.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
We are on the threshold, just stepping across it really, of understanding one of the most important evolutionary events that ever happened. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. I speak of flight, of course.
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