Knock Knock, Who’s There? – Identification of fairy-wren chicks by their mums
Before you start thinking this is yet another knock-knock joke, think again! The importance of the ability to distinguish their chicks from parasites found in their nest is no laughing matter to a mother fairy-wren. Just like how our parents…
The surprising ANTic of birds
Humans have a propensity to apply the strangest things on ourselves. Do a quick search on Google and you will find breast milk soap bars, dead algae cleansers and nightingale poop cream. It turns out that humans are not the…
Eurasian Jays and the 6th Language of Love
Image 1: Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) (Kaisla, 2012) There are five languages of love that the world know of today, but what do we know about the animals’ love languages? According to a recent research, the Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius),…
Honey, I Fostered the Kids!
Brood parasitic birds lay their eggs in the nests of others, belonging either to another individual of the parasite’s species (intraspecific behaviour) or to other species of birds (interspecific). At least 85 species of birds are reportedly interspecific brood parasites…
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