10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow. Birds are less compelling to human interest than our fellow primates, in many regards, but surely they are more arresting than a big wad of tentacled whale chow.

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Apes Birds Woodpeckers Primates 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2018

Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Think about it. But here’s the thing.

Monkeys 149

Monkeys Gorillas Whales Whaling 149

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. Even 50 years ago, someone describing the internet as it exists today would come off sounding like a paranoid schizophrenic, at best. But I digress.

Emotional 222

Emotional Science Birds Mammals 222

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Darwin Day is February 12th, and for an early celebration I thought I’d take a look at a book that rethinks the way Darwin, and we, think about evolution—a very specific part of evolution, the way beautiful features and behavior have developed amongst birds and, by extension, amongst humans.

Ducks 101

Ducks Research Animal Stud 101

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Anyway, one of the babblers of Sepilok is the Bornean Black-capped Babbler – the result of a split of the Black-capped Babbler (well, at least from a human perspective – the birds themselves are probably quite nonchalant about it). At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.

Woodpeckers 229

Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 229