Critter News
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
The PETA activist who worked undercover at the University of Utah, and collected video footage of alleged mistreatment of lab animals, was also involved in an operation at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. Tags: university research animal research undercover investigation PETA. I say "good for her!"
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2021
And apart from local people, primate researchers sometimes spot it, but it is a species seen by fewer than ten living birders. His employers were magnanimous in granting him time to research what was to be his magnum opus, published over the course of 20 years – the four-part Birds of the Belgian Congo.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Older collections, which often involved putting lots of stuff in boxes and ignoring it while focusing on a few sexy finds, are full of things that have not been looked at carefully.
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. 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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2011
Here’s some data from the famous research project of Manu, Peru, giving biomass in kilograms per hectare. In your back yard, if you have a feeder and exclude insects, birds may represent 100% of the animal biomass until either you our your cat walks outside. The data here are from the site of Manaus: All animals: 200 Mammals: 8.4
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 6, 2018
He has researched and published on Manakin behavior, the evolutionary development of feathers, phylogenetic reconstruction, evolution of genitalia in living birds, the physics of structural coloration in birds, and the dinosaur origin of birds.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Why anyone would examine a specimen collected in 1888 for mummified chewing lice is a mystery to me, but so is the appeal of Donald Trump. And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates.
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