10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2011
Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. I believe in science. Science, for many years, has done no better.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. But Mars’s character is less about being an eagle and more about the fact that he was stolen from his nest, raised in captivity, and now considers almost all of mankind – except Luna – to be his enemy. Read Carl Hiaasen.”.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2013
This was the local name meaning “ugly” used for these primates by the people of the Gonder area in northern Ethiopia when the German naturalist Rüppell “discovered” this species for science in the 1830’s. Gelada communications include intense staring with raised eyebrows. Mammals Ethiopia Gelada' Photo by Adam Riley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. So do parrots, some songbirds, humans, and a few other mammals. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Where do these abilities come from?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2015
This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Duncan chose a mammal! I love participating in citizen science! A missing Common Loon? The gall of some people!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
And, Fuller should know; he has spent his career producing books about extinct birds and mammals, including the recent Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record, from his home in England. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature.
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