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My Top 12 Wildlife Watching Moments

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Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. I remember, several times while motionlessly surveying birds, I found myself being investigated by Striped Field Mice , who would dare to come to sniff me. Raising and lowering its head, like stretching.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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The templates can be discovered by raising birds in the absence of adult song, and they often sound very little like the normal final product. These are sonograms representing the song of four Zebra Finches. Imagine starting with two sets of Zebra Finch hatchlings. The top two are individuals with normal song. 1st edition.

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