Highly-social zebra finches learn foraging skills from their parents. However, new research has found that when juvenile finches are exposed to elevated stress hormones just after hatching, they will later switch strategies ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 23, 2015
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Want a healthy brain? Get a little help from your friends.
Plants & Animals
Jun 25, 2015
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Brood parasites are reproductive cheats that evolve ways of duping other birds into raising their young. Examples such as mimicry of host eggs, chicks and fledglings by brood parasitic eggs, chicks and fledglings are amongst ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2015
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When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands in October 1835, he and his ship-mates on board HMS Beagle collected specimens of birds, including finches and mockingbirds, from various islands of the archipelago.
Plants & Animals
Apr 3, 2015
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Researchers from Princeton University and Uppsala University in Sweden have identified a gene in the Galápagos finches studied by English naturalist Charles Darwin that influences beak shape and that played a role in the ...
Evolution
Feb 11, 2015
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You know how that guy at the karaoke bar singing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " sounds a little off after he's had a few drinks? The same goes for buzzed birds, according to a team led by researchers from Oregon Health ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 30, 2014
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New research from the University of Kent suggests that chickens and turkeys have experienced fewer gross genomic changes than other birds as they evolved from their dinosaur ancestor.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2014
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The chance of a male fathering offspring may not be a simple race to the egg, but is influenced by the length of the male's sperm, say scientists from the University of Sheffield.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2014
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Scientists from LJMU have published research that provides a unique opportunity to investigate how personality can be affected by social context.
Plants & Animals
Dec 8, 2014
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Species must reproduce to survive, and animals have found unique ways of achieving this. For some, including us, it seems as though producing a few offspring that require extended care is the best strategy. For others, such ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2014
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