10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

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. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J. Nilsson, A. Nord, and S. an, Michal Porteš, W.

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 108

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

Camels 196

Camels Whales Whaling Apes 196

Critter News

DECEMBER 12, 2009

The Calgary Zoo is again under scrutiny as details emerged Friday about how a capybara, a species of giant South American rodent, died after becoming caught in a hydraulic door last weekend as it was being moved from one area to another. I don't track zoos, but this seems like an unusually high number of casualties.

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Zoos Animal Welfare Welfare Elephants 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. If cats displace ferrets, then that probably means that birds are getting hit harder than rodents, and among birds, adult birds are getting hit harder than eggs or hatchlings.

Cats 178

Cats Boston Ferrets Killing 178

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

They have now evolved to survive mostly on rodents of high elevation moorlands in Ethiopia’s mountains. They have a complex social structure, the study of which has been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior. Gelada mock attack a.

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Ethiopia Eritrea Africa Mammals 264