Crows fed on prion-infected brains from mice can transmit these infectious agents in their feces and may play a role in the geographic spread of diseases caused by prions, such as chronic wasting disease or scrapie.
Plants & Animals
Oct 17, 2012
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(Phys.org)—If two birds meet deep in the forest, does anybody hear? Until now, nobody did, unless an intrepid biologist was hiding underneath a bush and watching their behavior, or the birds happened to meet near a research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2012
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New Caledonian crows have, in the past, distinguished themselves with their advanced tool using abilities. A team of researchers from the University of Auckland and the University of Cambridge have now shown these crows can ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2011
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Crows have a long-term memory so good that they can recall colours for at least a year, a Japanese study has shown.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2011
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In a new study, scientists have recorded a breed of crow using tools, such as sticks, in multiple ways.
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2011
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Researchers at Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF, a Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) shed new light on the evolution of brain size in birds. Scientists have known for some time that ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2010
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(AP) -- Federal wildlife officials say they plan to spend more than $14 million to prevent the extinction of the Hawaiian crow, one of the rarest forest birds in the world.
Ecology
Apr 19, 2009
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Carrie Jennings flits around the South Fork Crow River like a water bug in the old one-seat canoe she bought years ago for $100, then pauses midstream to peer down at the brown water.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2022
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Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes in recent years helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2019
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Does an 1868 treaty protect the rights of Native Americans to hunt on unpopulated federal forest lands?
Ecology
Jan 8, 2019
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