10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2013
The Osprey is one of the true cosmopolitans of the avian world, found on six continents and breeding on five. It can and will live near most any body of water with an adequate supply of fish — fresh or brackish, wild or crowded with human activity. Adaptation has its privileges!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. The benefits are many, including the availability of anthropogenic food sources, breeding boxes and warmer temperatures. The less telomere, the more aging, independently of time.
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Animal Ethics
JUNE 7, 2016
In light of this horrible incident, is it right for the zoo to carry on a breeding program that subjects more animals to such unnatural lives? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century.
Critter News
DECEMBER 12, 2009
They were a part of the zoo’s breeding program for the rare birds. The zoo blamed human error for the deaths, saying it didn’t have the expertise to manage the fish and that a lack of dissolved oxygen led to the deaths. In April 2009, unseasonably cold weather froze two whopping crane eggs.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2012
which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. In short, the answer is that in the United States there are 20 billion birds at the end of the breeding and fledging season, which gets winnowed down to 10 billion by the following early spring.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Flocks of cheerful birds frequent caves and cliffs where they breed. They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior. They will take carrion and scraps, so often hang around habitations, emitting their curious video-arcade like contact calls.
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