10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2024

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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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

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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Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

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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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

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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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

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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Mammals Eggs Abandoning Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2017

Nor is it fair to the birder who might end up with great looks at a lifer but will be wracked by guilt for abandoning a mother on her special day. *Or, Or, you might end up in a situation like mine where you ask a test question late on Mothers Day morning, “Daisy, how do you feel about me going birding the rest of the day?”

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