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Rare Tee Clothing

4 The Love Of Animals

Their mission is to raise awareness on threatened and endangered species through their fun and contemporary apparel. are made from 100% post consumer products. Even though they look a bit more like a primate! I chose the Philippine Tarsier Tee, which is a very fun shirt indeed!

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The Thing About Colombia

10,000 Birds

Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. This Chestnut-crowned Antpitta was one of four species we’d see this way. In 2 days of birding we had nearly 170 species, including a great many Colombian endemics. The list goes on and on and on.

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Great Tit Telomeres, Baby Talk, Brainy Birds

10,000 Birds

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.”. Think about that for a moment … Anyway, we now know that the forebrain of some birds is more densely packed than mammals (primates and rodents, anyway).

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Fur Free Fashion Show Winners Announced

Critter News

Apostol said “It is the responsibility of us, the designers and manufacturers, to bring environmental awareness to the consumer by providing more and better sustainable products and style.” BFUSA’s Primate Sanctuary in Texas is home to more than 500 primates rescued from laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

10,000 Birds

The one bird I did not see here, however, was the Bateleur Eagle … One highlight in the area is the Saddle-billed Stork , likely to be the tallest species in the stork family. The African Spoonbill is one of the six global spoonbill species, and the main African one (there are also some Eurasian Spoonbills in Africa).

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

10,000 Birds

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. There are variations on that theme, of course. Even the non-passerines often follow this pattern.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species. For instance, in primate phylogeny, postcranial traits (bony traits of the body, not the head) are usually useless because we can’t link teeth to bodies in most cases, and the teeth drive the taxonomy (though there are some recent exceptions ).

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