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Tanzanian Starlings, Shrikes, and Weavers (Part 2)

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They are quick and intense, with the requisite taste for lizards, snakes, and fledglings, but they’ve been evolutionarily deprived of the proper tools… so they improvise. No wonder they’ve earned the moniker “butcher bird.” STELLAR SHRIKES Shrikes (like this Grey-backed Fiscal ) are little wannabe raptors.

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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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Furthermore, Binford claimed, if we maintained ideas of recently studied modern human hunter-gatherers in our brains, as the model for ancient hominids who used tools (sometimes associated with bones) we would tend to see those foragers, more or less, in the archaeological record of our past, whether they were really there or not.

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