10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. They used Great T**s from non-urban and urban areas, and mixed them up through breeding, to rule out any possible family history of telomere length. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened.

Mammals 110

Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 110

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Geophagy, the intentional consumption of soil by vertebrates, has long been documented in a number of bird and mammal species – including wide-spread use by humans – which consume soil to increase absorption of certain minerals not naturally occurring in the local diet. That’s right – birds eating clay.

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Peru Parrots 2011 South America 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Did birds repeatedly evolve migration because they ‘need’ to migrate more than, say, mammals? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 People were doing things like that with birds, sharks, and humans. Image source.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 194