Cows Look Dumb. They’re Operating on a Level You Can’t Even Grasp.
Dogs do see color. Naked mole rats are oblivious to pain. The first insects couldn’t hear a thing, instead relying on small organs in their joints to sense things moving around them.These are but a ...
NATURE NOTES: The Traveling Cowboy Bird
Some bird species are very content to stay put in a certain geographic area and never expand their range. They might migrate seasonally, but their range never shifts or grows.
Nature Notes: Sage-grouse need sagebrush
Several sagebrush obligate species are tied to sagebrush, species like sage sparrow, pronghorn, and sage thrasher. But none are as closely tied to sagebrush as sage-grouse. Indeed, sage-grouse cannot ...
Is Our Ground Meat Safe to Eat?
In this investigation on ground meat safety, Consumer Reports found dangerous bacteria in almost a third of the chicken samples we bought, deadly bacteria in ground beef, and worrisome gaps in the way ...
Food Chains
This includes meat because animals such as pigs, sheep and cattle eat plants ... DDT is an insecticide that can pass up the food chain from insects to small birds, and then from the small birds ...
Just for the birds: Birds, with curry
I left a day after Easter and then spent about three weeks searching for birds with old birding friends ... Our local guides said that killing a cow or eating beef is a punishable offense.
For the Birds
Before you start sending emails about how I can prevent such matters, please know that I attempt best bird-safety practices, but birds still fly into our windows and have for 25 years. I walk into ...
The Fun of Finding the Wrong Landmark in the Australian Outback
The garden is also full of aviaries housing cockatoos, parrots, budgies, and other tropical birds ... Their 4,000 cows are also not trapped indoors and can wander around. The family views their ...
Ep. 62: Restoring Landscapes and Livelihoods in Western Bosnia
The return of the grazing sheep is in turn restoring the region’s natural wetlands after a long period of neglect — due, largely, to the war. And the restored wetlands are attracting migratory birds ...
Nature Notes: The traveling cowboy bird that came from Africa
The cattle egrets eat the insects that these animals ... They will also eat pretty much anything they can catch. Small snakes, rodents, frogs and even birds are all on the menu.