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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Red-tail Without a Cause

10,000 Birds

Given the chance, I would gladly take the opportunity to berate the world in general for littering and for carelessly discarding cigarettes, but I must come clean and tell you the whole story. It was fascinated by something on the ground and suddenly dropped from its perch about 10 feet above the ground and plunged into the leaf litter.

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Groups Urge FDA Ban on Feeding Chicken Feces to Cows.Wait, WHAT???

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A coalition of food and consumer groups that includes Consumers Union and the Center for Science in the Public Interest has asked the Food and Drug Administration to ban the practice. the nation's largest restaurant user of beef, also wants the FDA to prohibit the feeding of so-called poultry litter to cattle. McDonald's Corp.,

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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

10,000 Birds

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. I love grappling with big ideas, but dislike the tendency to extrapolate endless sky-bridges of thought and constantly redefine terms.

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Baihualing – The Sequel

10,000 Birds

Scimitar babblers use these long downcurved bills to work through the leaf litter – they are rather terrestrial birds. But that is science in hierarchical institutions). They are typically long-tailed, dark brown above, white or orange-brown below, and many have characteristic head patterns.

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That Awkward Moment With Feral Cats and Family

10,000 Birds

We do what we can by giving them food, shelter, and getting them their shots and fixed to prevent more feral litters.” Third: Science can’t trump emotion (wasn’t that the eternal issue between Kirk and Spock), you’re going to have to keep that in mind when talking with pro feral cat people.