10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
Humans have always classified organisms in a variety of ways, depending on need. One, it requires that organisms be placed in relation to each other by means of characters (features) that were evolutionarily meaningful and that properly sorted out relationships. And with that, Willi invented Kladistics, which we now call Cladistics.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Third, which we already suspected, bird brains are adjusted to provide extra smartness in a way not seen in mammals. Bird, at least the ones that fly, can’t afford this kind of waste, so bird brains have evolved to be much more efficient than mammal brains. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened.
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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.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. The paper is “Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic” by Julia A. One of the key features of birds, and I use the term “key” literally, is vocalization.
Critter News
DECEMBER 23, 2009
We support two ocean protection organizations: People for Puget Sound (local) and the Ocean Conservancy. I think that ocean life, with the exception of mammals, are often overlooked because they are not the sentient, communicating species that we identify with, like primates, dogs, cats, etc.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
The average (responsible) dog-owner does not think of his or her dog functioning on instinct, but as a organism with deep emotional ties to its family that seeks out pleasures and avoids pains… which, fundamentally, is how we people operate. has gained a solid foothold in the scientific community.
Critter News
JUNE 16, 2010
I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? We approached a long corridor lined, to the vanishing point as in a perspective drawing, with caged chimpanzees.
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