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I and the Bird #147: IATB SAT

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As the owner of what has been called ( by me ) western New York’s leading test prep organization , I have to meticulously analyze every aspect of these crucial college entrance exams. Consequently, I give you the IATB SAT … The SAT undoubtedly deserves the title of America’s most terrifying test.

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EPA Wants to Rely Less on Animal Testing

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Environmental Protection Agency is reducing its reliance on animal testing to assess human risk of chemical toxicity and will instead focus more heavily on the tools made possible by advances in molecular biology, genomics and computational modeling. For a long time there will be a need for animal testing," he said.

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Two Examples of Mice Experiments - Valid or Not?

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In this experiment, scientists tested whether lighting can cause depression. However, it involved exposing rats to chemicals at levels that humans are usually not exposed to. I came across these stories about two different medical experiments using mice. They used different lighting situations to see how they affect mice moods.

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Come See Birds and…Everything

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The best test of that proposition, of course, is to repeat it to any one of the hundreds of thousands of birders who have, say, a family. Please consider using the services described in this post or any of the other posts we are sharing this February.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

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Whilst catfish have around 100,000 taste buds, rabbits around 17,000 and humans approximately 9,000, birds rarely exceed 100 of these receptors. But certain bird species go against the grain here and some even appear to have a better sense of smell than many mammals, humans included. Let’s talk about taste.

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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. Being somewhat allergic to crowds, I usually avoid traveling during the peak of this period.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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Where predators are rare, turning more attention to feeding might produce a Darwinian benefit, for example. Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. The most famous example of this is probably the Galapagos Islands.

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