Raising healthy chicks is always a challenge, but in a cold, fish-free Arctic lake, it's an enormous undertaking. Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) parents must constantly fly back and forth between their nesting lakes and ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2015
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It's not all bad for crow chicks who have to share their nest with an uninvited pushy guest such as a cuckoo youngster. For one, they can sit back and wait for food to arrive while the cuckoo chick does all the begging for ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 15, 2015
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A webcam captured images of the first of two African penguins hatching at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh.
Plants & Animals
Dec 16, 2014
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In the hunt for better knowledge on the aging process, researchers from Lund University have now enlisted the help of small birds. A new study investigates various factors which affect whether chicks are born with long or ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2014
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New Zealand's endemic tui (Prosthemadera novaseelandiae) have a tendency to 'jump the fence' when looking to breed, a study by Massey University researcher Dr Sarah Wells shows.
Ecology
Nov 12, 2014
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Abandoned penguin chicks that were hand-reared and returned to the wild showed a similar survival rate to their naturally-reared counterparts, according to a study published October 22, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2014
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Climate change is killing penguin chicks from the world's largest colony of Magellanic penguins, not just indirectly – by depriving them of food, as has been repeatedly documented for these and other seabirds – but directly ...
Ecology
Jan 29, 2014
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Dr. Craig Coufal hopes his egg-sanitizing machine may revolutionize the poultry industry.
Other
Jul 8, 2013
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Gut bacteria are known to have a central role both in human and in animal health. Animals acquire different bacteria as they age but how the microbial communities in the bodies of wild animals change over time is not well ...
Ecology
May 31, 2013
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An international team lead by the University of Granada has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to insulate the chicks ...
Plants & Animals
May 7, 2013
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