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Smart and Getting Smarter

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I decided to watch the Raccoon for a while and noticed something peculiar… It wasn’t foraging for food… it was testing various pieces of wood by pushing down on them, then moving on to the next one. It was using the kelp as a TOOL to get across the water, a flotation device!

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Home-cloning kit for waders.

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For the purposes of this post, I will assume a passing familiarity with the clone tool that comes with most picture editing software nowadays (however, if you are a first time cloner see the note at the bottom of the piece). The clone tool captures a selected target area of pixels and repeats them where-so-ever we may wish to place them.

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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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Osprey Cam

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It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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Test external webinar integrated

Speaker: Izaac Moran, Customer Success Manager, FourKites; and Glenn Koepke, SVP of Customer Success, FourKites

Learn how major retailers including Meijer, Dollar Tree, and Best Buy use visibility tools to minimize disruptions in their supply chains, including: Inbound visibility from suppliers. Visibility for store managers. Securing high-value goods in transit. Thursday, December 2, 2021 at 10AM PST, 12PM CST, 1PM EST, 6PM GMT.

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Bird Photography Equipment – Lens and Filters

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Photography is a great tool to improve bird ID accuracy as explored in my previous post Photography and Birding. Speaking of filters I ran a quick test of a UV that I added to my lens. Now I am ready to share with you what lens I consider ideal regarding cost, weight, portability, and quality. The weight of the kit is 0.3

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

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are applied using digital tools (a computer, a graphics tablet and stylus, and software), digital painting is aggressively taking over the field guide scene. Now, let me test the armour of “Birds of Cyprus” (BOC) against the mace of the “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG). Defined as an art form in which traditional painting techniques (e.g.

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