10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. In other words, you can’t say something like, “humans, gorillas, chimps, and bonobos are all in the same family and equally related to each other.” Some sort of ancient fish-with-feet is the ancestors of humans. Think about it. But here’s the thing.
Critter News
MARCH 14, 2010
Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. World Week for Animals in Laboratories (April 17-24) exposes their plight and the broken federal research funding system that perpetuates outdated animal experiments at the expense of modern and more humane technologies.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2012
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory in the scientific sense, but rather, a capacity whereby we have an internal theory of what is going on in other people’s minds. But that’s another story. Just eat the food. 1208724109.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2017
There are now 18 chapters (an increase of four) delving into the climate, plants, animals, birds, and insects of the rainforest, its ecological and evolutionary processes, and, because the Neotropics are more than high humidity, its other major ecosystems—savannahs and dry forests, mountains, rivers.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2011
In Chile I got the best view of an Andean Condor of the entire trip while having a cheeky poo under a monkey puzzle pine on the side of a volcano. By simply keeping my eyes open in the process I have acquired a long and growing role-call of these ‘toilet-ticks’. They do have a sensitive sense of smell I suppose.
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