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Smart and Getting Smarter

10,000 Birds

I decided to watch the Raccoon for a while and noticed something peculiar… It wasn’t foraging for food… it was testing various pieces of wood by pushing down on them, then moving on to the next one. I thought to myself “strange, I didn’t know they ate kelp.”

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Scientist Advocacy Group Oppose Some Animal Testing

Critter News

Despite the development of an all-encompassing theory as to why animals are not predictive, there remains—much to the detriment of human health and medical progress—extraordinary resistance to abandoning the use of animals as predictive models.

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

10,000 Birds

Though I guess such an adaptability can also be seen as an indicator of intelligence … Eurasian Jays are related to these crows, they are also regarded as highly intelligent, and unsurprisingly, they are also subjected to various intelligence tests by researchers.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

10,000 Birds

This means its parents did not abandon the incomplete nest, as they do when a potential predator is nearby: “Grey Fantails desert incomplete nests in response to the attention of predators [which we tested] by placing a mounted Pied Currawong (Strepera graculina), a common nest predator, near fantail nests that were under construction.”

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Accelerating Software Sales in a No-Touch World with Virtual PoCs and Demos

Sales and Marketing Management

IDC’s data revealed further challenges in closing deals when showcasing PoCs: 52% reported prospects “sometimes” or “often” abandoned PoCs in progress. Gaining data and insights into the prospect’s usage of a PoC or test drive is invaluable, as indicated in IDC’s research. Leverage Data.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. It’s a very mixed chapter. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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Parental Investment Theory

10,000 Birds

But since males are useless after insemination, female Elk might do better choosing on the basis of some perceived or estimated genetic quality, while female songbirds might be looking for males that are less likely to abandon the young or eggs in the nest. It has been shown that courtship is negatively correlated with abandonment.

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