Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2021

There are sections on transport, wildlife career info, and domestic animal issues; there are links to other wildlife organizations, wildlife and law enforcement agencies in several states, and contacts for marine mammal and sea turtle strandings. . This is a valuable resource you can pass along to your friends and family, wherever they live.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. Are there butterfly or mammal big years? (If

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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. Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time. City Great Tit ( Parus major ) telomeres shortened.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2015

Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. New research suggests that the phenomenon of contagious yawning can also be seen in birds. (Our first victim appears to be the Ring-billed Gull above, photographed by Corey.) Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

Moreover, says Higgins, there are “astounding similarities between the inner ears of owls and of humans,” so strong, according to one neurobiologist, “they suggest that hearing underwent an independent but parallel evolution in birds and mammals.”. Where, physically, is the bird’s sensor located? And do humans share this ability?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Fortunately for the honor of the species, the researchers found that kleptoparasitism was practiced at a low rate (4% of observations) while much more often, drongos captured insects disturbed by other species (41% of observations). In the unloved “Other” section of today’s post, we have a few more mammals.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. The marine protected area status was designated in 2013.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you are a really really important person in the area of Long-eared Owl diet research, instead of looking at hundreds of individual papers, I recommend reading the paper “Synthesis of 312 Studies on the Diet of the Long-Eared Owl Asio otus “

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

I want to talk about this research but if you really want to know more about it, don’t rely on me; one of the co-authors of this important paper is Darren Naish, who happens to be a stupendous blogger, and he has written the research up here. So go read that for sure, and revel in the excellent graphics. As Lee Et.Al

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10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2017

FRIM (Forestry Research Institute of Malaysia) is open to the public who come to bathe in waterfalls, cycle, walk, picnic and attend educational events, but most of this takes part in a small section close to the entrance. However, the crest is not always obvious and its diet is likely to contain birds and small mammals as well as reptiles.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2022

campus gardens – the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre, located 3 km east of the town of Turrialba. Into the souvenir shop for some local coffee, chocolate and cocoa, then a coffee mug with an image of a Three-toed Sloth and the Field Guide to the Mammals of Costa Rica, and off we go.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

My research in the Congo supports this idea. I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis. You mean a ham-fisted birder like me can actually be a real scientist?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2014

So, I put it in a special container and months later, state-side, I showed it to a world-famous fossil mammal expert who said, “Why are you showing me this Tigerfish tooth? I’m a world-famous fossil mammal expert. The researchers noticed the fish taking swallows at a rate of up to 20 a day. Which I did.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

Research also suggests that the Antarctic population of blue whales may now be growing at 6% a year. BLUE whales, the world’s largest animals, are reappearing in parts of the oceans where hunting once wiped them out, signalling that they may finally be returning from the brink of extinction. In the Atlantic, sightings are also increasing.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ad_icon The practice, however, is fiercely criticized by researchers and marine mammal conservationists, including the educational anthropologist widely credited with having invented it, retired Florida International University researcher Betsy Smith.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

However recent research has shown that they are in fact not baboons, despite superficial appearances, and they are now just called “Gelada”. Mammals Ethiopia Gelada' Male Gelada in his prime. Photo by Adam Riley. For those who have heard of these singular creatures, the name Gelada Baboon would ring a bell. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 17, 2012

Officials reported 48 marine mammals, mostly dolphins, and 87 dead sea turtles during the first two months alone. April 14, 2012 Liquid oil still seeps from some Louisiana marshes and ongoing research of toxicity levels is being conducted by LSU researchers. April 16, 2012 BP Oil Spill Settlement is extended by judge.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I was doing my thesis research at the time, and it even affected what I was doing, as the wild world was being reconceptualized in terms of tannins and alkaloids, seed edators and dispersers, and so on. The first thing I learned was that most animal-plant interaction did not involve mammals, or even birds. Insects ruled.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. The research on these swallows involved mist netting, a technique for safely collecting wild birds for measurement or banding and release. When a car comes along they fly away.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2013

This is an idea that has been around for more than a century, to which recent research has given considerable support. There are plenty of gliders out there, including mammals, snakes, and lizards, so gliding without powered flight is a thing. Birds may have evolved from an ancestor with four wings.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

"Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the team led by Jan Schipper of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland, concluded. "We

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Motomco’s Material Safety Data Sheet for “Hawk” warns that the product “is extremely toxic to fish, birds, and other wildlife” and that “dogs and predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten this bait.”

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2010

I particularly question the use of chimpanzees in medical research. I recently was escorted through a large primate research laboratory by its director. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. Tags: animal experimentation animal research. The following is from The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

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. I'm going to try and research other groups to see if there is a group that is more in line with the philosophy I'm trying to follow.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. is remarkable.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, I wrote about hypothesized relationships between passerines, parrots, falcons, and seriemas , noting a need for further research on the subject. The post stimulated some great discussions but not really any additional commentary on the science behind these proposed relationships.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well. Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. The research team reporting on these fish carried out a stable isotopic analysis to see what role Pigeons may play in the diet of these fish.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data. But perhaps such morals would be the hardest to discover and document.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The mosaic of wetlands, open water, bottomland forests and prairies provides habitat for numerous mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and nearly three hundred bird species.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). Of course, Mantle says, "but though they are high-level mammals, they're not humans." Finally, the core question: Why do these "researchers" continue to use animals when there are alternatives and personal threats?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. Even if you have read about these research projects, Weidensaul’s accounts offer fresh angles and updated information. is through the personal and the specific.

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