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Wind turbines are the risk of death of bats
Energy-generating wind turbines have long been thought to be a life-threatening risk for birds. But in fact, a large number of bats have died because of this type of dev…
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Birds know how to motivate people
Fans of a team often comfort each other when their teams lose the match. Similarly, a bird knows how to encourage each other when it fails in competitions.
Animal world
Migratory birds learn
As with many tourists learning local words, migratory birds seem to learn and understand the common calls of unrelated birds they encounter on their journey.
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Birds migrate at night in scattered flocks
A recent analysis indicates that birds do not fly alone when migrating at night. At least some of them go together in their migration journey, they still fly together ev…
Animal world
How do birds identify cuckoo eggs laying in a nest?
It is not always easy to detect crow's nest eggs in the nest. But if you do not find out, you will have to pay a high price when you have to raise children for others. H…
Animal world
Detecting conjoined twins
A pair of conjoined sparrows are causing a stir among the ornithologists. This is considered an extremely rare phenomenon, in a million cases only one.
Animal world
High rate of hormones is a weapon to kill siblings
The Nazca dove - a seabird that lives on the Galápagos Island - came out ready to kill its siblings when it was removed. Biologists at Wake Forest University and colleag…
Animal world
Birds transmit success messages in songs
Some song-singing migratory birds can find the best place to live by overhearing the songs of other birds that have children. This behavioral and communicative character…
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The song of the bird watching
Troops on guarding enemy territory keep the radio in regular contact with colleagues to make sure everything is normal and safe to operate. New research by Dr. Andy Radf…
Animal world
The secret strategic love song of birds
A recent study found how male birds flirt, chasing after their children are no different from how phone companies attract customers.
Animal world
The secret of the magic mine in waterbirds
Almost 150 years ago Charles Darwin revealed a slender bird's beak due to its adaptation to its environment. Now, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team of…
Animal world
Amazing designs of nature (part 1)
On the hot desert, the small lizard, 2cm tall, looked up at Parker frightened like a newborn dinosaur who lost her mother. It seems too cute for this harsh land, yet it…
Animal world
Eagle with an artificial beak
The white eagle named Beauty in America revived after being fitted with an artificial beak to help him eat and preen. The animal broke the mine by being hit by a poacher.
Animal world
The coat makes up the bravery of male swallows
A new study conducted by the University of Colorado at Boulder showed that sex hormones in male North American swallows skyrocketed during the breeding season when resea…
Animal world
Baby birds also babble before singing
The young birds also babble before they can mimic the song of adult birds like our children in our world. Currently, MIT scientists, in the process of researching to dis…