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A Stab in the Dark
This is natural and totally brutal, wtf_nature. Ed Yong of Not Exactly Rocket Science wrote a piercing exposé on the secret nest lives of Greater Honeyguide hatchlings.
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Birds in Space
Well, this is hardly natural; therefore this is more of a wtf_science, but I do not know wtf happened to wtf_science. Anyway, I am pleased to announce that there have been feathered cosmonauts and avian embryo astronauts!
This is footage of Commander Anatoly Solovyov, first ever cosmo-aviculturist, with a fluffy ( Read more... ) -
Blue Stork
The recent arrival of a blue stork in the German town of Biegen has attracted a lot of attention from the local news.
I tried to find anything more substantial, reasons as to why this bird turned blue but most of the news coverage on this one is still in German.
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ducks are kinky
blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/12/22/kinkiness-beyond-kinky/
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Animal Funerals
On the heels of the "animal suicide" post, there's a short article in The Register about magpie funerals. According to Dr. Marc Bekoff of the University of Columbia, magpies have been observed grieving over the corpses of their dead friends. Not only did a particular group gather to observe and touch the corpse, they also left "offerings" of ( Read more... ) -
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This is kindof a continuation of the previous post of the Albatross chicks with bellies full of plastic. I mentioned in the comments that I had a bunch of similar pictures saved on my computer from doing a project on bottle cap pollution for my science class and someone asked if I could post them. Also, since it's rather sad, I included a link to a ( Read more... ) -
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This is pretty messed up, and it almost appears to be hand-made...but it's not. A back story, quoted from the website:
"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who ( Read more... )
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