10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2022
Lango Camp deck overlooking Lango Baï, by Congo Conservation Company The forests of the Congo Basin contain more than a 1,000 species of birds, together with 400 species of mammals, including Okapi, Hippos, Leopards, Chimpanzees and Bonobos. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
For example, you could say, “among mammals, only three families include species with a meaningful degree of root eating” or “within the family that includes lemmings and voles, there is a mixture of monogamous and polygynous species” and so on. Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. So, here’s the thing.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
The teeth, being made of durable enamel (not common in fish) are readily discovered. As I was just starting to examine it, a famous paleontologist who happened to be passing by came over to look, and immediately determine that it was a fossil primate tooth, a very rare find indeed. I’m a world-famous fossil mammal expert.
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. The purpose is to protect ocean species as a whole. I'm not sure how this fits into my support of animal rights though. But I may not find one.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 16, 2011
But that is because we often have the relationship between dinosaurs and birds reversed in our little primate minds; Much of what is bird-like is not exclusive to birds, but rather, to a larger group of dinosaurs. Among mammals, bipedalism is found in several rodents, a number of marsupials, and one primate.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
This young Western Gull seems to have no idea what to make of this Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish), or perhaps it prefers the company of unusual fish. In birds, the cerebral cortex is proportionally smaller than mammals, which for many years led researchers to assume that they lacked the ability of so-called “higher” brain functions.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Fish are mostly silent on the matter. One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization.
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