Humane Investigation Mammals Research 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Because unlike those of mammals, avian ova need penetration by multiple sperm in order to successfully develop into baby birds. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Sheffield in the UK, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (If But it points to new areas ripe for investigation.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
According to Wikipedia, these birds are good at multitasking, being “in some parts of its range … known as a symbol of luck, longevity, and fidelity” As in humans, “the social implications of dancing [among the cranes] are complex in meaning” ( source ). If everybody did this, the result would be chaos.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Even to the author of the paper, who cautiously adds that “nest architecture is unlikely to be irrelevant to females, and its role deserves further investigation” (if swear words were allowed on 10,000 Birds, I would say that he is trying to cover his ass).
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. In humans, adults (probably mainly mothers) do this thing called “motherese” which is talking in a way one would normally not talk to another adult, to a baby. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2012
As you read the below timeline and see the below images, don’t ever forget the perils that walk hand-in-hand with human greed. July 24, 2010 BP brazenly says an internal investigation has cleared the company of all gross negligence in the spill. The NOOA recorded approximately 70 marine mammal strandings each year prior to 2010.
Animal Person
JULY 3, 2009
" Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals ," By Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce, is the most recent (for me) book that debunks myths about the differences between human and nonhuman animals. Despite some shared evolutionary history, wolf morality is different from human morality and also from elephant morality and chimpanzee morality" (19).
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. That’s right – birds eating clay. Scarlet and Blue-and-Yellow Macaws Ara macao and A. Chestnut-fronted Macaws Ara severa.
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