10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2012

Still it is always nice to add to the evidence of animal intellect. 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.

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Raccoons Abandoning Abandonment Abandon 259

Critter News

JANUARY 11, 2009

I found a link to them on ANIMAL's blog (ANIMAL is a Portuguese animal rights group.) These scientists are NOT an animal rights group. They do support some animal-based studies (which sucks); HOWEVER, they acknowledge that much animal research is useless. Tags: animal research.

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Groups Advocacy Biomedical Research Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2012

You’re a mammal, so you might be tempted to use yourself as an example mammal, but humans are actually kind of bad examples of mammals, so perhaps we’ll use a well studied hoofed animal instead. Thus, the two types of animals have very different courtship patterns.

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Mammals Eggs Abandon Abandonment 205

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

If you are a bit deranged and like to read about animal diseases (you know who you are), I recommend checking out the paper “Poxvirus infection in a Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike “ “The nest is remarkably small for the size of the bird. The species gets a consolation prize for being genuinely black-faced though.

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Australia Birds Sheep Zebras 147