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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

10,000 Birds

I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. But in the absence of Efe Pygmy hunters, we ran into ground mammals much more frequently, and not because we were doing a better job of sneaking around.

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Eyesight of Man’s Best Friend

4 The Love Of Animals

We take a look into how man’s best friends see and how good their vision really is in comparison to that of a human’s. Dogs can see really well at night as they are great hunters and years ago would hunt in low light levels, so their vision has evolved in order to help them hunt. Colour myth. Night vision and hunting.

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