4 The Love Of Animals
APRIL 25, 2010
In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). Recently, another powerful little nose has joined the diagnostic force: that of the African giant pouched rat. Rats help save humans.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
It’s not always an easy book, at times dense and challenging, it is also fascinating and stimulating, motivating us to look at the totality of a bird’s life and the interconnectedness amongst bird movements, shorelines, landscapes, weather, and us–humans.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2021
I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too. Popular with Black-winged Stilts … … Common Redshanks … … and with Pied Avocets , though their activities look a bit dangerous. In contrast, the Common Terns present look much more elegant.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Is it any wonder that Pink Pigeons were on the brink of extinction when humans intervened? I know, that’s harsh.
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