10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Abyssinian Longclaw An attractive meadow-lark like species that occurs in high-elevation grasslands, often near water courses. Spending time sitting in amongst massive grazing herds of 500 or more of these primates and observing their fascinating interactions is one of the highlights of Ethiopia. Gelada mock attack a.

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Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

He then says he goes to "exceptional lengths" to make ensure the physical and psychological welfare of the primates he uses, "except when it's absolutely necessary" to harm them. And then comes a brief conversation about Singer and how we wouldn't use young humans, which Jentsch says is precisely why we should use primates.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2022

Whittaker had not yet gotten the message that birds don’t smell, her intellectual background was in primate research, but a colleague set her straight, telling her, “Birds don’t have a sense of smell, so I don’t understand why you’d study that anyway?” ” (p. There’s also roller derby stuff.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 21, 2008

This woman said that those scenes didn't really bother her that much, it was the ghost and sexual implications in the story that disturbed her (latter relating to the human characters of course.) Which surprised me. It didn't affect you AT ALL? So, fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2023

Nearer to the eastern and southern coasts are extensive wetlands, however, and within these I spent considerable time over the course of three days. On Bush Bush, the main attraction is undoubtedly the pair of native primate species: Red Howler and (Trinidad) White-fronted Capuchin, the latter being critically endangered.

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Critter News

JANUARY 29, 2013

Of course, this was reported by the Iranian State media so who knows what is true. Reportedly, the monkey returned safely from its flight into space.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

I speak of flight, of course. Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. This is a key feature of birds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Early morning is of course birding prime time and a pre-breakfast stroll around our lodge produced sightings of the lovely Orange-bellied Parrot , which we tracked down to a nesting hole right next to the restaurant. As the sky turned rosy with dawn, we stopped for some excellent additions to our burgeoning bird list.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Cattle 255

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Besides the birds, the teams were distracted by half a dozen primate species and rare Giant River Otters. And of course the teams were birding the entire way, nailing down high Andes species like Mountain Caracaras , Andean Flickers and Sword-billed Hummingbirds. An Andean Flicker on the ground in the Peruvian Andes.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are variations on that theme, of course. This was the idea originally proposed to explain unbelievably huge sexual swellings in primates, to let males know who the females are. Even the non-passerines often follow this pattern.

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Breeders Breeding Science Raised 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Primates are exceptional among the mammals, living amphibians (which represent only a small part of the original amphibian family tree) are pretty noisy too. Except, of course, there are, or should I say, there is one , so far, to make that comparison. A look at the brain would be nice too, of course.). But there aren’t any!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Good parrot owners know the social bonds these birds need to have, or they become angry and depressed, often resulting in the plucking of their own feathers or acting out at people. has gained a solid foothold in the scientific community.

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Emotional Science Mammals Alaska 252

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2011

But of course, I do understand that bird watchers strive to see the birds that are at the lower end of the distribution of abundance, or to observe unusual behavior, so in a sense all this other bird-biomass out there consisting as it does of mundane birds is a distraction rather than an objective. This is also because mammals are large.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I was pretty sure it was fake from the get-go, because who brings their baby to a golf course in Montreal to bait eagles? When I emerged from my bedroom I learned what you, no doubt, as a regular reader have already deduced – it was the now-infamous “Eagle Steals a Baby” hoax video.

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Eagles Psychology Primates Montana 166

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2012

which was a comparative look at apparent, visible, often in your face biomass we observe when we as diurnal primates look around us. Of course, a lot of the mammals would be hiding. I had noted that if you took a quick look around you’d think there were a lot of birds and very few mammals.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. At Sepilok, it can be hard to avoid taking photos of some non-birds, such as primates. As you know, some primates face a number of court cases, both criminal and civil ones. I think they just got what they deserved.

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