Critter News
MARCH 6, 2010
million dollar research lab. It will house rodents for use in experiments. And research for drug development, which means more MONEY and JOBS! Tags: west virginia university animal research Obama tax dollars us. Thanks to your tax dollars, federal stimulus money is being used to build a $14.5 Because it will create JOBS!
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The Hawaiian Crows face much more destructive threats–extreme loss of habitat; malaria, the scourge of so many Hawaiian species; predators–rodents, cats and the ‘Io, the Hawaiian Hawk. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
” We don’t call any rodents “flightless rodents” though almost all of them are. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Not all birds fly, but all birds have flight related anatomy and at least descend from those that did. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
I’ve observed nesting owls, fledgling owlets, owls eating small rodents, owls coughing up their pellets, a Great Horned Owl silently flying over me, a Great Gray Owl sitting regally still on a post as a boy walks up to him, a pair of Barking Owls duetting in early evening hours outside my northern Australian hut as I brushed my teeth.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2014
There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Meanwhile I have a few random thoughts.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2016
Research done quite a while back suggests that this is adaptive. Researchers have been studying song learning in birds for some time. 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.
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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