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Birding Acapulco

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The third weekend of January, I travelled to the coastal city of Acapulco to give a seminar on family finances at a church there. I had never birded this way before, and can confirm that what I had heard is true: Birds are much more tolerant of human presence when those humans are on a boat! I would definitely say that it is.

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Smoking is (good) for the birds

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Back in the 1980s, it became popular for biologists to consider plant secondary compounds in understanding inter-species relationships and other ecological matters. I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Insects ruled.

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