Thursday, November 24, 2016
Serenading embryos with weather forecasts
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Zebra finches tweet and twitter while brooding their eggs 1 . Picture yourself, sitting still and warming a clutch of eggs -- hour-aft...
Sunday, November 6, 2016
What Birds belong in the "Clever Club"?
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Nathan Emery's delightful and thoughtful book, Bird Brain An exploration of avian intelligence , should be read by all serious studen...
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Monday, April 27, 2015
Why hummingbirds taste sweets but chickens can't
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Chicken tastes good but, like most birds, chickens can't taste sweets 1 . What about hummingbirds who live on nectar? Hum...
Why hummingbirds taste sweets but chickens can't
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Chicken tastes good but, like most birds, chickens can't taste sweets 1 . What about hummingbirds who live on nectar? Hum...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
"Bird brained" is a bum rap (2013 version)
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The earliest vertebrates on the earth were fish. When their descendants first ventured into land environments, they had to return to the sea...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Is Sandill Crane dance entirely innate? Does it show motor learning?
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Crane dance is iconic. All 15 species of cranes communicate with elaborate body language 1 . Comparisons among species reveals clear and co...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Bird brains are different - An introduction to the blog
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"Now that there are strong grounds to dispute Descartes' contention that animals lack the capacity to think, we have to ask just ...
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