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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science

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Mist nets are a popular strategy. That’s just what researchers on Cape Cod in Massachusetts are using–a cannon-fired net. Let’s hope the netted birds provide more information that points researchers to solutions. News Conservation Red Knots research' Their goal?

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Yet, the research projects are never the whole story.

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Puerto Rico Plans Huge Primate Breeding Facility to Supply Researchers

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In addition to troubling questions about its legality, such a facility would also place Puerto Rico behind the curve in the current context of scientific debate about laboratory research involving live animals. Tags: animal experimentation puerto rico animal research primates medical research.

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Does Your B2B Closing Technique Include This Strategy?

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Forbes contributor, Roger Dooley has a knack for ferreting out better business procedures through behavioral science. Share Your Strategy. A previous SalesFuel post advised sellers to share their closing strategy at the first meeting. It’s not so much the methods involved but the mindset it triggers that makes it compelling.

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An unusual auk baby

10,000 Birds

Starvation and predators make it hard to grow up, and birds have evolved a lot of strategies to give (at least some of) their chicks the best chance in life. One strategy that varies among birds (and other animals) is the number of offspring. Seabirds are one group of birds that go for the latter strategy.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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In China, wherever there is one real tourist attraction (like the Great Wall), the local strategy seems to be to add some fake attractions – replicas of palaces or tombs, amusement parks, shopping centers – in order to maximize the income from tourists. But the starting point has to be a real attraction, not a fake one.

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The Best Sales Call Questions are Powered by Outstanding Emotional Intelligence

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The Best Sales Call Questions Originate from ‘Soft Skills’ Science suggests that self-awareness is a key component of emotional intelligence , or EQ. Fortunately, researchers agree that the human qualities of self-awareness and social awareness, or EQ, can be developed over time. EQ’s boost of handling objections: 69.8%

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