Critter News

MARCH 10, 2009

The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? This story on HIV research is one example. Here's my response on medical research in general.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 16, 2011

Tree leaves have a reputation for being hard to digest and animals, such as monkeys, that feed primarily on leaves, spend most of their time either eating or resting while their guts, with their specialised bacteria, break down the cellulose and extract the goodness from the meal.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

More on this here , as well as some audio examples for you to listen to. For example, some of that brainy tissue needed to be a singing, territory defending, mate seeking male bird is added during breeding season, and removed later when not needed. And the more the juveniles paid attention, the better they learned. Here’s the problem.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. It turns out, for example, that “Theory of Mind” is very rare in the animal kingdom.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

My personal favorites are the images that show the relationships that are at the heart of this book–a Linneated Woodpecker perched opposite a bromeliad on an exposed tree, Azteca ants on a cecropia tree whose decaying parts provide food, and, a little distressingly, two Capuchin Monkeys feeding on a Toucan (thanks to James Adams).

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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. millions years ago.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Passenger Pigeons, for example.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

A single large spider monkey, which might be out of view, equals a large number of lightly built and small birds which may be scattered across the landscape. There are probably other major trends that depend, for example, on latitude and timing. This is also because mammals are large. A little bit of bird biomass goes a long way.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser observed what could be called embarrassment in a male rhesus monkey. With no prior training they can make hooks from straight pieces of wire to obtain out-of-reach food.

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