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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent–A Book Review

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Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p. ” such as “how do birds smell?

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Are Birds Really Dinosaurs?

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But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate.

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Are there so many birds that cats don’t matter?

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which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings. Makes you think.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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In the former, a female lays her fertilized egg in the nest of another species, in the hopes that her offspring will be raised by the unwitting hosts. This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are.

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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If the male’s color fades after the first egg, the female reacts by laying a smaller second egg – seemingly deciding that it is better to cut her losses as the male apparently is the avian equivalent of a deadbeat father. Yes, you can get that information! Probably without having a single thought while doing it!