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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. We compared alligator body condition in similar habitat with and without wading bird nesting colonies present.

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Songbird-parrot link strengthened in new study, with implications for vocal learning

10,000 Birds

This relatively new technique has been used to study relationships among and within several groups of mammals, including lagamorphs (rabbits and hares), rodents, and cetaceans (whales and dolphins), but I couldn’t find many references to its application in avian systematics yet. Ringer Suh et al.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

Animal Ethics

was advertised to online customers as having an "imitation rabbit fur collar." The NY Times article Keith linked to earlier today (see here ) points out that fur sales are up 9% over last year and from this statistic goes on to infer that "fur is back in style." But is it really? Not according to my students.

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