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. From Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain by Seweryn Olkowicz, Martin Kocourek, Radek K.

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Critter News

MARCH 14, 2010

Each year, millions of cats, dogs, non-human primates and other animals suffer and die in research laboratories. Recent published studies document that an old boys network in the federal grant award process keeps “aging cash cows” afloat while leaving younger, innovative investigators struggling.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p. There’s also roller derby stuff.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

At the same time, female relatives of the initiate allow themselves to be severely whipped with saplings, forming permanent scarring on their backs and in the process cementing lifelong allegiances between the parties. D’Arnaud’s Barbet displaying atop a fencepost. A young Hamar woman. The lovely Bruce’s Green Pigeon.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 237

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

For example, if we hear distant thunder, we know that it was caused by a storm, or by lightning, or by the more precisely defined physical processes of ionized air (depending on how much we know about meteorology). Even among our primate relatives, whoa are generally very smart, “Theory of Mind” is found in only a few species.

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