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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

My surprise at reading such a detailed account (I don’t have Klem’s dissertation in front of me, but I’m imagining this is a more personal retelling) was tempered by the thought that Klem wasn’t describing any old research, this was the FIRST research project investigating why birds fly into glass.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Meanwhile, the scientists also raised a separate group of foxes under identical conditions, except for one difference: they didn’t have to pass a test to mate.

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