Animal Person

MARCH 18, 2009

The New York Times presents us, this morning, with "Equine Alternative" regarding the recent discovery that horses decided to allow themselves be domesticated by humans for our mutual benefit, earlier than we had thought (3500 BC, and we preciously thought it was more like 2500 BC). And that fact gives rise to a thought-experiment.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

And here is the problem: Siberian Chiffchaffs are visually distinct, call very differently from European Chiffchaffs and their song is so different that one form doesn’t react to the other’s song in playback experiments. Maybe the two song-types are connected by a gradual change? And the presence of Giant Hogweed will as well.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

Yes, in the face of all the human tragedy the Cold War caused it may seem a miniscule aspect, but to a young boy who was passionate about birds, it wasn’t. In 1996, during my university days at Greifswald, I was invited to join an excursion to eastern Kazakhstan, travelling along the Chinese border from Almaty to lake Zaissan and back.

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Europe Birds Kazakhstan Russia 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2014

One of the pleasures of birding through a landscape no man has gone before is that one has frequent encounters with individuals – birds, mammals, herps, whatever – that have never seen a human in their life. Mammals Kazakhstan rabbits' The Tolai Hare to me is not a hare, it is more of a miracle. ” Works all the time!

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