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...said. “When my post-doc came in, he looked at me and just said, ‘I’ll go get you a new one.’ And I was like, ‘no, wait, I need a minute! I killed a bird, and it’s really, really...
According to Harvard researcher Antoniu L. Fantana, who taught Barth last year in his tutorial on bird song, only a few animal species have the ability to listen to sounds and replicate them, including songbirds, whales, bats, and humans...
...original version of the Sept. 11 news article "Mapping a Bird Brain in Japan" incorrectly stated that 50 college students participated in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute's internship program last summer. In fact, there were six college student interns...
When I was doing the research for this book, I met so many extraordinary people who rescued species from the brink of extinction when everybody else laughed at them. One example is the California condor. At one time, there were just 12 of these birds left in the wild and one in captivity. Now there are 300. This bird would have gone but for a small group of people who would not give up. As long as we have people like that, there's hope for the future...
...Angeles Times op-ed last week, Democratic Representative Howard Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, argued that whatever Zelaya's alleged infractions, they should have been addressed legally, not militarily. "It's time to call this bird what it is," a military coup, and move on with whatever tougher sanctions that might mean in order to get the Micheletti regime to back down, Berman wrote. Obama and Clinton still feel a negotiated settlement in Honduras can be reached. But the Micheletti regime, which human rights groups say has cracked down violently on many Zelaya supporters (a charge...