Critter News
JULY 12, 2009
Another crass attempt at primate slavery for money wrapped in "we put people first" robes." The proposed primate breeding facility would violate both the letter and the spirit of Puerto Rico’s progressive new law, which strictly limits the use of animals in experimentation. From the ALDF action alert page.
Reddit Animals
AUGUST 7, 2023
Prepare to be amazed as we delve into a story that highlights just how cunning and clever these primates can be. Most would expect a gentler introduction, perhaps starting with a smaller, less intimidating primate. Instead of scattering the bowls across their enclosures, they developed a strategy. But not this rookie keeper.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. It has evolved in non-vertebrate animals like insects more than once.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Not just birds, but also plants (Colombia boast the most orchid species, too), insects, primates, reptiles. The nation was launching its official National Birdwatching Strategy, which is a pretty cool thing for a nation to have, let alone one that can offer so much to that end. The list goes on and on and on.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
There are two patterns that are fairly extreme that fall into this category: brood parasitism and helper-at-the-nest strategy. In the case of brood parasitism, made famous by the many species of Cuckoo as well as cow birds and some fiches, among others, one might expect the host birds to evolve anti-parasitism strategies.
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
The active colonies of wasps are efficient protection against primates and large avian predators. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. During the whole trip, I only saw the Secretarybird twice, and only on one occasion got (not very good) photos. fish per day, equivalent to about 23-34% of their body weight.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
That was probably a great strategy for rapid reproduction … live very fast and die very young. That strategy determined the fact that all mammals would have the risk of somatic mutations that accumulate over time affecting their eggs. This is a key contributing reason for the existence of, and nature of, modern human grandmothers.
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