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A Little Queer Natural History

September 24, 2024 by Peter 1 Comment
The “clickbait” title for this post could well have been “The gays are making our bears queer” but no,...
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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

November 2, 2021 by Donna No Comments
Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially...
Birding

Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

December 15, 2015 by Greg 2 Comments
Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to...
Birding

How The Bird Got Its Beak

May 19, 2015 by Greg 1 Comment
Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of...
Birding

Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

August 19, 2014 by Greg 6 Comments
There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of...
Birding

Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

July 24, 2014 by Duncan 2 Comments
Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in...
Birding

Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

June 17, 2014 by Greg No Comments
It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more...
Birding

A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

February 18, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments
The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have...
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