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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

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It was also great to finally travel overseas again, meet a lot of people I did not know (and some I did), to be in a new country… and not just the new country, but its best birding area, where almost all local hotspots are yellow (150+ species) and several are ochre (200+ sp.), impressive for Central Europe.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Most likely, all individuals of a given species have very similar genes guiding very similar developmental processes, but produce different results because the plasticity itself is selected for. In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame.

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