10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2022
.): The Amazing Lives of Migratory Birds (“Author Scott Weidensaul talks about the millions of birds flying unseen over our heads in the night sky, how the bar-tailed godwit can fly more than a week over water without stopping, and how new tracking technology may help with strategies to keep them alive. Sidedoor ( Smithsonian , 2020, 25 min.):
Reddit Animals
AUGUST 7, 2023
A Lesson from the Zoo A young zoo keeper embarks on her first days at the zoo, ready to embrace her new role. Instead of scattering the bowls across their enclosures, they developed a strategy. A Dangerous Deception As the young zoo keeper gained familiarity with her responsibilities, a startling incident unfolded.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2021
The same strategy also works for the Crested Finchbill , a species that presumably feels very much at home at Graceland. A small colony has even established itself at the Shanghai Zoo, though the majority of this species lives further south. However, this rebranding has to be done right, and it has to be done whole-heartedly.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2015
Amazingly, the strategy paid off when a tiny hummingbird materialized on the tip top of a twig just like coquettes love to do. This hat-trick and hummingbird ace in the hole was the La Paz Waterfall Gardens, a place I usually avoid because it’s expensive to enter, is sort of like a zoo, and crawling with people.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2022
Gisela Kaplan has written a book about the species, and how they seem unperturbed by humans: “It’s one of their most successful defense strategies. It seems that quite a few zoos keep Tawny Frogmouths. They just sit and pretend not to be there to avoid interaction.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
The new rankings will be used in a major conservation initiative called the Edge of Existence program at the London Zoo. The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. Also written up here.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
The species that manage to colonize these islands evolve in competition with relatively few other species, developing survival strategies based on interdependence, co-evolution, and mutualism rather than adapting to deal with a broad range of predators and competitors.
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