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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The photographic quality ranges from very good to exceptional, and though the point of photographs in a book like this is to communicate information, I think the excellence of some of Loughlin’s photography suffers from the number of images packed into the book. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Some like Charles Vaurie have considered it so unreliable that they even suggested the destruction of his egg collection.” ” ( source ).

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up! Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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Selling Birds Short: A Heretical View Of Avian Intelligence

10,000 Birds

For millenia, many of the world’s collective cultures have had an exceptionally strong anthropocentric bias when looking at the value of life. But many people who live closely with animals, whether as some of the more open-minded researchers or your average pet owners, have always been well aware that this simply isn’t true.

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