10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. If I was so inclined, I might think that they deserve to be killed by Pied Currawongs for their sinful behavior.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Islands, with their high levels of endemism and specialization, are particularly fragile and vulnerable to human activity. This bird was in serious trouble by the mid-19th century due to the adults being killed for food and young being taken for pets. Its last stronghold was the Zapata Swamp in western Cuba.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Strangely, the photo accompanying the Wikipedia entry on Collared Finchbills , Asian birds, was taken at Cincinnati zoo. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test.

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