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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. But, yes, there are photographs of dead birds and x-ray images of the damage done to individual birds and photographs of the annual FLAP display, as shown below.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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It’s no coincidence that the two species that pass Hare’s pointing test also share a profound cross-species bond. But scientists had carried out few studies to test those beliefs–until now. Kaminski put Rico to a rigorous test and confirmed that the dog could learn names for more than 200 toys, balls and other items.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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The templates can be discovered by raising birds in the absence of adult song, and they often sound very little like the normal final product. The bottom two are the songs of individuals raised in isolation, representing only their “built-in&# template unaffected by the experience of hearing normal adults. London: John Murray.

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A Question of Migration

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Some of the first solid research pointing to a magnetic sense of some sort in birds was being produced at that time, and there were even people testing humans for a similar ability. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Those two questions are not mutually exclusive. Why migrate?

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see.

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