Critter News
JANUARY 24, 2011
The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animal rights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
It is technically correct, and recently fashionable, to insist that any living animal is a member of the larger group that contains it phylogenetically, i.e., ancestrally, with that group often named after the known animal that roots the tree. So, for example, humans are apes. The point is, of course, that whales are not cows.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult. Another group simply heard adult songs played through a speaker. More on this here , as well as some audio examples for you to listen to. Here’s the problem.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2017
The photographs are by a group of nature photographers, guides, and birders, including Kricher himself, plus familiar names such as James Adams, Edison Buenaño, Gina Nichol, Dennis Paulson, and Clay Taylor. It also allows Kricher’s graceful writing style to flow unrestricted. Please–do not read this section only!
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2013
It’s actually a pretty classic example of convergent evolution, wherein two unrelated families of lifeforms evolve to fill the same niche independently. We’ll take these two similar, yet very different groups of birds separately. Thailand’s Adopt a Vulture Program – YC Wee, Bird Ecology Study Group.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. According to cladists, every organism is a member of any group of organisms that includes it.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Strictly speaking, Mammals of South Asia is not a field guide, because some larger groups (rodents, bats) cannot be identified down to a species level following the concise descriptions and a single illustration. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). Larger species, that is, excluding dolphins and whales.
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