Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

experiments were performed on animals last year, a rise of 454,000 or 14% on the previous year, the Home Office said. The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. As I’ve noted elsewhere, it was really Darwin’s experiences on the Falklands that first congealed many of his evolutionary insights. My research in the Congo supports this idea. The paper is in Natrure Scientific Reports.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

It is helpful to have a sample paper. Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

The research team reporting on these fish carried out a stable isotopic analysis to see what role Pigeons may play in the diet of these fish. Notable is the high degree of variation among the sampled catfish; only some of the fish are eating pigeons. The range of size of sampled catfish ranges from 0.9

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2011

But arguments made against the proposal include the following: Genetic sampling of Mexican Ducks has been insufficient to give an adequate understanding of the situation. And while we’re at it, what’s your experience with Mexican Ducks and Mallards in Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas? What do you think?

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled. The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. That was one of his cats.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Illustrations were created using diverse visual and physical source materials–skin collections from Australian museums and a database of over 300,000 photographs (plus, of course, the artists’ years of field experience). These “vignettes” are sadly limited due to space considerations. And, there are many.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Harrison writes in the introductory section “How To Use This Book”: “The basis of distinguishing confusion species is personal field experience gained over the past 60 or more years of sailing the world’s oceans during which all but one of the more than 430 species contained in this volume have been observed.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

As a librarian and women’s studies scholar, I greatly appreciate the research. This is where Boase excels. I did often wonder while reading the book whether the result equaled the effort. I was seduced by her customers–their wealth, beauty, scandals, lovers and connections.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2015

Bird species that require further research. In other words, it’s one of those serious headache future splits because figuring out what is going on with the evolutionary history of this secretive taxon will require sampling from many parts of its range. Bird species that require further research and for which we need recordings.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2012

Fortunately, Alan Tilmouth, a beat writer with pelagic experience, expressed an interest in the book as well. I found this material overwhelming, but was encouraged by Howell’s advice: don’t rush it and learn it in conjunction with field experience. So, you will be reading two reviews of this book in 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Several recent studies have found that tinamous are embedded within the ratites, which means that either they regained the ability to fly or (as many researchers feel is more likely) that flightlessness and large body size arose multiple times within the paleognaths, a topic discussed in detail at Tetrapod Zoology. Jarvis et al. Jarvis et al.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book.

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Animal Person

JULY 23, 2009

You'll need to know all of the information in your book proposal anyway in order to sell it, so forget carping about having to go through the exercise of a 50-odd page proposal (the bulk of which is your writing sample anyway). Querying agents should involve research. When your proposal is complete, query agents.

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