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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

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He also believes that we are living in an era of incredible scientific research, one in which new genetic technology and findings from diverse scientific disciplines have turned assumptions upside down, opened up new lines of thought, and provided answers, or at least probable answers, to many of our questions about why birds do the things they do.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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The first two chapters make clear that although environmental concerns were a factor, his major reason for doing a big year was personal–his work as a postdoc in research neurobiology was at a crisis point, he needed to change research direction or…do something else. This is a smartly written book.

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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science

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Mist nets are a popular strategy. That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. News Conservation Red Knots research' Their goal?

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Trying to Break Into the World of Forex Trading? 4 Helpful Tips

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Doing a bit of research will allow you to find out which of the brokers at your disposal has the best reputation and offers the widest array of services. The time and effort that you put into this type of research will be well worth it in the long run. Leave Emotions at the Door.

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A Birder Attends a (Virtual) Ornithology Conference – Part II

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He also described the current recovery strategy for the parrot, which will involve the creation of additional populations and exchanges between them. Grames about how entomologists and ornithologist who research food sources for insectivores do not communicate with each other or cite the same papers despite the obvious subject matter overlap.