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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

The Ashy Tailorbird is a good example of the different perspectives of describing a bird – while the English name focuses on the body of the bird, the Latin species name ruficeps refers to the rufous head. The paper cites the example of the Blue-footed Booby: Its foot color becomes duller when the birds are malnourished.

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After the recent Gorilla vs Grizzly thread I think this is needed: Gorilla myth busting

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A good example of this can be seen through comparing humans standing next to a mirror versus the jungle leopard who later passes by the same mirror Unfortunately for our dear friend the gorilla, we have quite a bit of evidence to suggest predation upon them by forest leopards along with leopards being an enormous threat even to silverbacks.

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On the threshold of flight

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Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

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It caught just one fin whale compared with a target of 50 in the hunt that began in November. And then comes a brief conversation about Singer and how we wouldn't use young humans, which Jentsch says is precisely why we should use primates. Re: Trajectory of humans versus primates. That's one result.