10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Songbirds first listen to and memorize the sound of adult songs and then undergo a period of vocal practice–in essence, babbling–to master the production of song.”. In this study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a group of juvenile zebra finches was allowed to interact with an adult.

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Mammals Zebras Birds Primates 108

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

A recent paper in Science, Brood Parasitism and the Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds by Feeney, Medina, Somveille, et al, looks into this interesting possible relationship. This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. Somveille, M.,

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Breeders Breeding Birds Groups 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

But it is utterly bewildering to me to see news reports about this recent science that read “… An icon knocked from its perch&# or “Archaeopteryx no longer first bird.&# Remember above where I mentioned that a trait has to be well behaved and not a product of non-genetic effects and so on? Scale bar: 3cm (a).

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Mammals Europe Groups Family 242

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Prum has had a long, productive, award-studded ornithological career, a chaired professor of ornithology at Yale and recipient of a prized MacArthur fellowship. Videos, like the illustrations and diagrams included in the book, help make literature about science, especially theoretical science, more accessible to us non-scientists.

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Ducks Research Animal Stud 100