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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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If you’re feeling fearful or ignorant, well, I can recommend vox.com’s coverage (as in most things), but you could also do worse that picking up Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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NASA Funds Radiation Experiments on Monkeys

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Another animal experiment I would not support as a US taxpayer. was one of 12 awarded radiobiology research grants through NASA's Human Research Program, the space agency announced October 27. Of what benefit is this to humanity in the here and now? Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are calling attention to it.

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Birding Balangshan (tunnel area) in June 2023

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Humans are not always bad for birds, only about 95% of the time. Sounds a bit like some weird Nazi eugenics experiment to me, but I guess it is just science. Biologists – or as Ze Frank would say, the Science Hippies – call this ecological segregation (e.g.,

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Just like in people, yawning is contagious in birds

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Science is fairly well established that yawning can spread like wildfire among groups of humans, as well as a few other mammals. In one experiment, yawns were observed when birds in neighboring cages could see each other, and again when views of adjacent birds were blocked. Don’t say you weren’t warned!

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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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But while humans mainly try to stay slim and fit for health reasons, Eurasian Siskins care more about the danger of being eaten. In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. People tend to eat more food when in company. The same was shown for Eurasian Siskins ( source ).

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Junco Mashup

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In my experience, I’ve noted how birders, particularly newer birders, can have a tendency to jump to conclusions when they see any sort of bird that doesn’t match up perfectly with the picture in the field guide. New Jersey mystery sparrow. Structurally, that long and low body, the pot-belly and the flat head.

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And the Beats Go On…

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Since then there have been some major changes here at the ol’ blog and we thought it was time to update everyone as to where we are at with this grand experiment in group bird blogging. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Greg is a biological anthropologist and Africanist, who writes and teaches about Evolution, especially of humans.

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