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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

” And then I found out that bird song doesn’t just belong to the males, that there are female birds who sing too, only not so much in North America, and my mind was blown.**. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

10,000 Birds

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. This allowed them to carry out experiments such as giving some bones to the hyenas to see what they would look like after being munched on for a while.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.

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“It’s a good life”: Donald Kroodsma’s Birdsong

10,000 Birds

Good field guides to bird sounds are certainly available, particularly Nathan Pieplow’s for eastern and western North America.) To humans, birdsong is akin to Joycean language, isn’t it? It’s not a field guide, as such.

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Birds In a Changing Climate: A Primer

10,000 Birds

The vast majority of you reading this accept it is happening, and for the time being it is caused by humans. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. This is a Pika, a charismatic and beloved mammal found in high elevations in much of western North America.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

But they don’t live in North America. He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Smaller and larger animals (if there are any) are taken by other creatures.

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Calgary Zoo in Big Trouble

Critter News

To many people, the number of animal fatalities at the Calgary Zoo in newer years seemed very high. A study released by the associations that accredit zoos across North America said that the occurrence of deaths was not a fluke. The study reported that the zoo was not properly able to handle the marine animals.

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