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The Fallen Yellowlegs

10,000 Birds

Take note of this Greater Yellowlegs on the wall from a screengrab of a video of the Black Skimmer. I say unceremoniously – but I am using the human metric by which we decide what makes noise and what doesn’t. Elephants, peccaries, and corvids have all been documented processing the death of (as we put it) a loved one.

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Birdie Magnetic Sense and Human Generated Electromagnetic Fields

10,000 Birds

In human terms, your ability to navigate your way from your home in Springfield, USA, to Bora Bora is the same ability that gets you from home to the grocery store and back, slightly adapted for a larger scale. There is a lot of electromagnetic noise created by humans, and there has been concern that this energy is harmful.

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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

10,000 Birds

It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Then there are the other uses and a question of ethics: Let’s say you know where Kirtland’s Warblers or Whooping Cranes are nesting and you want to document it with a drone…is that harassment? What if there’s an injury?

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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Pam Anderson Urges End to India's Animal Testing

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Sounds like she watched a harsh video. Former Baywatch star and model Pamela Anderson has accused one of India's most prestigious research centres of animal cruelty, urging it to retire decades-old test monkeys and adopt humane practices. Her letter to the Indian research facility is pretty distressing.

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USHS Alleges Animal Abuse at the University of Louisiana New Iberia Research Laboratory

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They have video. The video footage shows monkeys biting themselves and slamming against the bars of small cages. Here is a link to the Humane Society. I couldn't get the video to work for some reason. Actually, it's more then allegations. It is the nation’s largest primate research lab that studies chimpanzees.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

10,000 Birds

BBC has the story as a video. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. They believe it is the first documented case of birds making detours to avoid destructive weather systems on the basis of infrasound.

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