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- August 20, 2013
- 07:00 AM
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Is The Hooded Grebe About To Go Extinct?
by Greg in 10,000 Birds
Podicipediformes, aka Grebes, are freshwater diving duckish birds that are not ducks. For an order they are neither diverse nor...... Read more »
Roesler, I, Imberti, S, Casanas, H, Mahler, B, & Reboreda, JC. (2012) Priority Contribution: Hooded Grebe Podiceps Gallardoi population decreased by eighty per cent in the last twenty-five years. Bird Conservation International, 371-382. DOI: 10.1017/S0959270912000512
- July 16, 2013
- 07:00 AM
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Cory’s Shearwater Uses Mental Map of Pelagic Odor
by Greg in 10,000 Birds
I teach human evolution, and at some point I use a chart showing reversals in the Earth’s magnetic field, which...... Read more »
Anna Gagliardo1, Joël Bried, Paolo Lambardi, Paolo Luschi1, Martin Wikelski, & Francesco Bonadonna4. (2013) Oceanic navigation in Cory's shearwaters: evidence for a crucial role of olfactory cues for homing after displacement. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(15). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.085738
- September 18, 2012
- 02:00 PM
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The Incredulous New Caledonian Crows
by Mike in 10,000 Birds
We know that the human mind has capacities that are not common in other animals. Some of these capacities seem to be linked with language or with complex thinking or inference, and probably evolved in connection with our linguistic and complex social behavior. For example, humans have “Theory of Mind” which is not a theory [...]... Read more »
Taylor, Alex, Miller, Rachael, & Gray, Russell. (2012) New Caledonian crows reason about hidden causal agents. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208724109
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