Taste as a tool
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APRIL 29, 2024
Researchers at Hill’s Pet Nutrition and elsewhere have spent decades gathering data about food palatability and investigating why pets have certain taste preferences.
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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)
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MARCH 25, 2024
One proposed explanation by the researchers for this phenomenon is that similar-looking birds reduce their risk of predation, as predators find it more difficult to focus on and isolate a single target. Interested in doing research on the Orange-bellied Leafbird ? melliana but might represent an undescribed subspecies.
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