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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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Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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Quoth the Raven: Who you callin’ bird-brained?

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A team of researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Germany collaborated to study intelligence in Ravens, Jackdaws , and New Caledonian Crows. As indicated by the study, there might be other factors apart from absolute brain size that are important for intelligence, such as neuronal density,” said cognitive science doctoral student Can Kabadayi.

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Animal Rights Activists Jailed in Europe

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The group had targeted about 40 firms as part of an international conspiracy to force the closure of Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), an animal research laboratory based near Cambridge. Some employees from firms in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland had "puppy killer" and "scum" daubed on their houses. From Reuters.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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Birding the Kruger Park (3): Malelane area

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Fate eventually caught up with him when he was killed by a wounded elephant in the Okavango area, though possibly the blow was lessened a bit by being elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since the news of his death had not reached Sweden yet ( source ).

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A Question of Migration

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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 We found that this magnetic field stimulated the birds to extend their fat-deposition period, indicating that magnetic cues may help small migratory birds to confront large ecological barriers. 2 PIERSMA, T., PÉREZ-TRIS, J., MOURITSEN, H., 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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Lake Constance–overlook just east of Sweden. Lake Constance–overlook just east of Sweden. Lake Constance–overlook just east of Sweden. Lake Constance–overlook just east of Sweden. Lake Constance–overlook just east of Sweden. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.

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