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Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Other:

Many chicks intentionally abandon the nests in which they hatched to seek out temporary or full adoption by foster parents.

This nest switching has been seen in seabirds like gulls and terns as well as storks, raptors, egrets and herons.

If they moved into nests containing fewer or younger chicks than their previous homes, then they could also receive more food by more easily outcompeting smaller adoptive siblings.

But why would the adoptive parents allow the intruder into their nest especially to the detriment of their own young?

Nest invasions are common, but unlike for white storks, there is a significant cost incurred by the foster parents:

White storks allow baby intruders to share their nest and food-but why?(Thinkstock) Given such high risks for adoption, why hasn't evolution endowed these birds with a better ability to identify oe and reject oe intruders?

selection will favour universal acceptance of young in the nest. In other words, it may be better to needlessly waste resources on alien infiltrators than to accidentally reject one of your own hatchlings.

they preferred cotton previously used by other mice to unused cotton for nest-building. Perhaps most surprising the mice even preferred parasitised cotton balls to clean ones.

These geodesic aquariums, inspired by Fuller's prototypes for sturdy lightweight structures, will be let loose in swirling ocean gyres,

Yale mechanical engineer Michelle Addington has documented vividly control systems for dynamic plumes of heating and cooling air that enclose building surfaces,

extending tendrils and plumes and interacting with the layers of the air that surrounds us.

Within this kind of city fabric, the thermal plumes emitted by each human occupant offer a new form of energy to be captured

But what is certain is that the survivors of these menagerie experiments in the human garden will produce a genetic legacy.

he immediately remarked"petting the sharks at the aquarium, Â then, after a pause,"oh, and seeing Bono!

and copiously defecating, scattering dung up to 2 metres in radius by flapping its tail vigorously.

then slowly wags her tail while defecating. In situations like this, dung-showering is thought to serve as a sign of submission.

a female was bitten on her tail by the lead male. While the tail bite slowed her down

she managed to briefly free herself before being bitten again, by the same male, on her body near her right pectoral fin.

His talk featured a fish tank with a tomato plant growing out the top. His plan was to a build a large-scale aquaponic system in Mareb province, to the east of Sanaa,

When a desert ant leaves its nest in search of food, it has an important task:

The professor of genetics at Barnard College sent his students out to trawl the markets'open-air displays of exotic fish, fruit and vegetables,

where the leaders kept their stores of hummingbird and macaw feathers, the dominant currency. A year later

From dogs to cows, scientists rushed to clone a menagerie of animals using Wilmut's technique, known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT.

¢Birds Nest The Chinese make soup out of this, and one bowl costs anywhere from$30 to $100!

because the nests can only be harvested a few times per year.¢¢Rooster Testicles In Taiwan, rooster testicles are considered a good source of protein

A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

and didnt want to shut her out of his lab or trap her inside. The solution?

They dont help around the nest or nurture their young. A smaller hazard The small size of wild turkeys makes them less of a road hazard than 200-pound deer.

#Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps Animal Traps in the desert? British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins.

Pyrolysis takes plants, animal manure or any other kind of organic biomass, traps it in an oxygen-free environment and heats it to around 550°C. At the end, youre left with biochar,

A major pitfall of mini-shifting is the lack of oeclear edges between work and personal time

and described certain airborne chemicals that can trap incoming sunlight and warm the climate, while others cool the planet by blocking the Suns rays.

Sixty cameras traps placed in Dermakot also captured images of the marbled cat flat-headed cat, leopard cat and Borneo bay cat, all smaller in size than the Sundaland clouded leopard. oethese small cats feed on rats and mice,

The Webb hotels sponsored trap shoots, realizing that men and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.

The Webb hotels sponsored trap shoots, realizing that men and women who could afford to burn 100 shotgun shells every outing also might throw dollars at a hardway eight.

#which have lost the ability to build their own nests and collect pollen. These species lay their eggs in the nests of other bees,

which end up raising the invaders progeny. That s the same sort of trick cuckoos pull in the bird world.

Rooms include the Birds Nest, the UFO and the Mirrorcube, just part of the 25 different architectural flights of fancy planned for the hotel.

#Fishermenâ##s Hackles Become Latest Fashion Trend Hackles#the long, skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures are the latest trend in hair extensions.

Jim Bernstein, a flly shop manager, was warned that hair stylists would come banging on his door.

and made a beeline toward a display of hackles#the long, skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures.

She brought a bunch up to the counter and asked if I could get them in pink,#

Feather extensions. Supplies at stores from the coasts of Maine to landlocked Idaho are running out

and some feathers sold online are fetching hundreds of dollars more than the usual prices. Im looking around the shop thinking hmmm,

bemoaning the trend in online message boards and sneering at so-called feather ladies.##Some also blame American Idol#judge and rocker Steven Tyler, who began wearing the feathers in his long hair.

It takes years and years and years to develop these chickens to grow these feathers.

And now, instead of ending up on a fly, its going into womens hair, #said Matt Brower, a guide and assistant manager at Idaho Angler in Boise.

The feathers are not easy to come by in the first place. They come from roosters that are bred genetically

and raised for their plumage. In most cases the birds do not survive the plucking.

At Whiting Farms, Inc.,in western Colorado, one of the worlds largest producers of fly tying feathers, the roosters live about a year

while their saddle feathers#the ones on the birds backside and the most popular for hair extensions#grow as long as possible.

As hair extensions, the feathers can be brushed, blow dried, straightened and curled once they are snapped into place.

Most salons sell the feather strands for $5 to $10 a piece. The trend has become so popular a company online even sells feather extensions for dogs.

The craze has also left hairstylists scrambling to find rooster saddle feathers as fly shops hold onto a select few for their regular customers.

if the feathers are said for hairdressing Shelley Ambroz, who owns Mirabella Salon and Spa in Boise.

He told me to stay out of his feathers, #she said. Whiting Farms is harvesting about 1,

500 birds a week for their feathers and still cant keep up with its current orders,

The company was the one that told Bernstein in Maine several months ago that rooster saddle feathers had somehow become the latest coveted hair accessory.

#Bernsteins inventory of rooster saddle feathers has long been depleted. About three weeks ago, he dusted off a rooster neck with feathers that had been set aside for fly tying classes at the shop.

Its not uncommon to find a package of rooster saddle feathers that would have cost around $60 at a fly shop now priced from $200 to $400.

A package of the most popular fly tying hackle for hair extensions, a black and white striped feather called grizzly saddle

At the Boise salon, Ambroz has stowed away enough feathers to last about six months. On a recent Tuesday evening, Emilee Rivers, 16, sifted through a pile of rooster saddle feathers looking for the perfect strands to frame her face.

She picked out four and handed them to the stylist, who bonded them together with hot glue before clipping them into Rivers blond hair.

Theres only one other girl at Borah High school in Boise who has the feather extensions

Plants like the Venus Flytrap demonstrate a small amount of intelligence when they attract a fly into their sticky trap and close their mouth around it.

In a somewhat similar display of plant intelligence, Poison ivy plants are able to sense danger through the proximity of a person or animal,

and use cement to build foundations for buildings instead of their mud nests. Perhaps they could even be trained to build monuments or towers.

Re-Nest has more: Chef s Farm comes with five nutri-culture beds, which are installed each on long and thin metal frames.

The nets are still in wide use today, and currently include casting, drifting, dragging, landing, trawling,

For example a Venus Fly Trap needs to have two of the hairs on its leaves touched by a bug in order to shut,

scouting for nest sites and scouting for food. When a colony of bees outgrows its living quarters,

These bees, called nest scouts, are on average 3. 4 times more likely than their peers to also become food scouts, the researchers found.

Hafernik and his colleagues hope that the simple way they made their discovery will enable professional and amateur beekeepers to collect vital samples of bees that leave the hive at night#with a light trap

Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,

Growup founders Kate Hofman and Tom Webster built the Kickstarter-funded farm to demonstrate the possibilities of aquaponic farmingwhere wastewater from fish tanks is turned into nutrients (with a little help from microbacteria) that fertilize plants

The box contains two 1, 000-liter fish tanks that house 150 tilapia, but the Kickstarter page assures us that the vegetables (the box can grow salads, herbs,

web-based 3d virtual world seemingly designed to specifically avoid all of Linden Lab s early mistakes and pitfalls.

Yale mechanical engineer Michelle Addington has documented vividly control systems for dynamic plumes of heating and cooling air that enclose building surfaces,

extending tendrils and plumes and interacting with the layers of the air that surrounds us.

#the thermal plumes emitted by each human occupant offer a new form of energy to be captured

Which is all to say that there is something fascinatingly mysterious about the entanglement of our health with that of nature.

These range from smart self-adjusting thermostats like Nest to IP connected appliances that self-report maintenance information.

they typically conjure up images of a tractor cresting a hill billowing large plumes of exhaust into the air.

They have digging claws that can dig through hard dirt so they might be able to actually kill each other Simon said.

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</p><p></p><p>Mantis shrimp can use their armored claws to strike at speeds of 74 feet per second (23 m/s) delivering blows with 200 pounds (91 kg

</p><p></p><p>Carnivorous bog-dwelling plants called bladderworts can snap their traps shut in less than a millisecond 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap.</

As governor of New york Roosevelt even outlawed the use of feathers in clothing like hats to prevent the slaughter of exotic birds.

Starfish don't have scales don't have tails and can't swim so they are therefore not fish.

The worst of these techniques is the use of large nets (including dragnets seines and driftnets

The birds nest in tree hollows that are favoured also by species introduced to Tasmania-such as the European Starling

-which steal the nest sites. Fortunately few starlings visit Melaleuca. And for most of its history there have been very few people either.

of which are greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and thereby help raise global temperatures.

While most birds sit on their eggs to keep their unhatched young warm maleos bury their large eggs in underground nests letting heat from geothermal sources the sun

Maleos are mostly black in color with peach plumage on their stomach yellow facial skin a red-orange beak and a casque on top of their head.

The prevailing winds at the time of the accident were from the south and east so much of the radiation plume traveled northwest toward Belarus.

Sharks are endangered worldwide largely because of shark finning the removal of dorsal fins from still-living sharks for the Chinese delicacy known as shark fin soup.

and dorsal fins in a walklike gait said Fahmi (who only goes by one name) a shark researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Science who wasn't involved in the study describing the species. In the video of the newfound walking shark

</p><p>Researchers found evidence of large leg feathers in 11 bird specimens from China's Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature.

The feathers suggest that early birds had four wings which may have played a role in the evolution of flight scientists report in a study published today (March 14) in the journal Science.</

-or wasp-like insects built hive-like nests in what is called now the Petrified Forest.

These nests found by Stephen T. Hasiotis and his team from the University of Colorado are at least 207 million years old.

Feathers probably evolved from early body coverings whose primary function at least at first was thermoregulation. At any rate it is clear that Avians were highly successful

Confuciusornis (125 to 140 million years) was sized a crow bird with a modern beak but enormous claws at the tips of the wings.

#Daring to Trap Grizzlies, Researchers Tackle Population Puzzle It takes a trained team a healthy dose of caution

Once the trap catches a grizzly scientists use a sedative to immobilize the animal. Then they have only an hour to take blood

and their tails were curled. They also had floppy ears and barked. Â When I met the bred foxes for the first time one jumped in my arms

#Earthworms Trap Carbon, But Do They Influence Climate Change?(ISNS)--Earthworms have long been the organic gardener's friend.

The litter is ground to a pulp in their gizzard broken down and digested by their gut bacteria

Essentially earthworms created a carbon trap. We're losing the litter on the surface of the soil

The footage comes from more than 100 automated infrared camera traps set up in nature reserves in the Sichuan region.

But the camera traps may not have caught all of the animals unawares. In one video clip of a group of Tibetan stump-tailed macaques one of the monkeys curiously sticks its face in front of the camera

and avoid the snares in the future. They're much brighter than I am Ray Powell a veterinarian

#Fighting to Save an Endangered Bird With Vomit A psychological warfare program centered on vomit could help save the marbled murrelet an endangered seabird that nests in California's old-growth redwood forests.

While breeding its back feathers morph from black to mottled brown to better match the forest.

The seabird doesn't actually build a nest instead choosing a flat branch covered in cozy moss and needles with cover to hide from airborne predators.

The effects were monitored with camera traps and a second wave of mimic eggs. Reducing predation on murrelet nests by 40 percent to 70 percent would stabilize the Santa cruz Mountains murrelet population according to the 2010 study published in the journal Biological Conservation.

That 40 percent minimum would drop the extinction risk from about 96 percent to about 5 percent over 100 years

and hot temperatures and tree roots trap sediments slowing the lapping of water and allowing other life to flourish.

Nonretractable claws help them gain traction when running on soft ground and their tails help them balance as they make sharp high-speed turns

while chasing their prey. Full-grown cheetahs are about 4 feet (1. 2 m) long not including a 30-inch (76-centimeter) tail.

Kangaroo tails are muscular long and thick at the base which helps them balance and turn when they're hopping.

and long sharp claws that help them climb tree trucks. Koalas'have five fingers one of which is an opposable thumb

Their thickly padded tail helps them sit for hours in trees. Though koalas generally don't make noise the male has a loud call during breeding season that can be heard about a kilometer away.

Retractable claws help them grab and swat prey which they kill with a bite to the throat.

Each individual leopard has its own hunting range which it marks with urine and claw marks.

They have short tails a hump on the shoulders and large ears they can rotate.

and their jaws are strong enough to gnaw through metal traps. Despite its rotund appearance the devil is capable of surprising feats of strength climbing trees and swimming across rivers.

Like other marsupials their tails swell with stored fat. Female devils give birth after about three weeks of pregnancy to 20 or 30 very tiny young called joeys.

Because they store extra fat in their tails unhealthy animals have limp skinny tails. Their name means Harris's meat lover after the scientist who described them.

#Funnel-web Spiders: Families, Bites & Other Facts Funnel-web spiders are spiders that build funnel-shaped webs

which they use as burrows or to trap prey. Three distinct spider families are known popularly as funnel-web spiders.

Spiders in the Agelenidae Dipluridae and Hexathelidae families all build funnel-shaped webs but that is where their similarities end.

and their funnel webs are lined really burrows with silk These spiders have a dangerous bite. Two well-known species of Hexathelidae are the Sydney funnel spider and the northern tree funnel spider;

Spiders in the Dipluridae family are commonly known as funnel-web tarantulas. Their funnel webs are rather messy.

Most of these spiders live in the tropics of Central and South america but they are found worldwide including Australia Africa and Central asia.

Web Residents of grassy areas will recognize the funnel webs scattered in the grass during the summer and early fall.

or in the cracks of shingles (anywhere there is a crevice for them to build a funnel web inside).

Instead prey gets caught in a large sheet web that surrounds the funnel s entrance. Depending on the species the sheet web may

or may not be sticky but either way prey gets caught in its slippery or sticky surface.

The spider calmly waits calmly in its funnel until it feels the sheet web vibrate as prey gets caught in it.

They are distinguished by their shiny carapace (hard covering over the front of the body) which is haired lightly.

Dangerous species All species of Australian funnel-web spiders are considered dangerous but the two most notorious are the Sydney funnel-web spider and the northern tree-dwelling funnel spider.

The black or brown Sydney funnel-web spider s habitat correlates closely with the greater Sydney area.

Male Sydney funnel-webs are exclusively responsible for human deaths from this spider's bite. Their venom is five times as toxic as the female s

because they look like house cats with long tails. But the orange-brown olinguito eluded classification by scientists for more than 100 years

Her parents were paired through the Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

#Harnessing The Power Of Peacocks To Make Colorful Images (ISNS)--The gloriously colored iridescent feathers of the male peacock aren't

because the feathers contain nanometer-scale protein structures that break up incoming light waves recombine and reflect them as rich vibrant colors.

That's because its iridescent feathers reflect different colors or wavelengths of light at different angles.

but also trap the light so that viewers can see the intended colors from all angles. The trick Guo said was to get light to enter grooves much smaller than the wavelengths of light.

Well-planned hunting can safely reduce the wildlife populations to levels that won't invite an invasion of fangs and claws.

and tail off as the summer progresses reaching a lower baseline level for the winter Benbrook said adding that CLA levels mirror the amount of fresh forage in the cows'diet.

and creating huge plumes of smoke that have drifted across state boundaries. The fire has destroyed areas of the forest cherished by her family

His legislation establishes clever traps a series of procedural hurdles that would make science at federal agencies subject to endless challenges by special interests that do not want to see agency regulations move forward.

Bmp proteins are responsible for the origin of feathers in birds and their loss of teeth.

These social caterpillars spin large communal white silk nests which are highly visible making them potential targets of surveys via Google street view.

The researchers analyzed data regarding the presence or absence of caterpillar nests collected in these blocks through either direct observation in the field or Google street view.

and thus less chance to properly spot these caterpillar nests. This effect may be less of a problem in the future as Google street view's coverage expands.

Climb and oversized nest Several blocks away from Prospect Park at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden another tree-repurposing effort has taken shape in the form of a nestlike structure that visitors can climb inside.

and says it is meant to look like a nest that had been blown to the ground. It's a memorial to Hurricane Sandy in a way Romero told Livescience.

A group of urban sustainability graduate students from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn stopped by the nest last week while perusing the garden chatting positively about the sculpture.

'Â Both the nest and the playground will remain in their respective locations indefinitely though the wood in the Zucker Natural Exploration Area was treated not pressure

These outbursts spewed a giant plume of ash that spread unusually far and stayed for an oddly long time in the atmosphereforcing widespread flight cancellations for days.

and after the eruption in areas directly influenced by the plume of iron-rich ash.

This was really the first time scientists have been under a volcanic plume at sea and could really look at the immediate effects of the ash falling into the ocean Achterberg said.

Beneath the plume the scientists found that peak dissolved iron levels were up to about 20 to 45 times higher after the plume than they had been before the ash came along.

However the team estimated that the plume from Eyjafjallajã kull only triggered a 10 to 20 percent rise in carbon dioxide uptake by phytoplankton in the Iceland Basin compared to other years.

Of course any time you introduce a species there are many potential pitfalls but this plan is cautious

Striking Images of Locust Swarms To detect the pests agriculture officials in California have placed about 100000 traps across the state.

Some say it has a tail like a lizard; others say it has no tail at all.

The monster is said to kill dogs chickens and other small animals as well as leave spooky cloven hoof prints in snow

Bekoff's most recent Op-Ed was'The Dog's Telltale Tail. This article was adapted from Kiss a Pig Contests Cheap Laughs and Bullying in Psychology Today.

#Male Birds Like Nice Nests (ISNS)--One bird species may have advice on how to get its dads to take a more active role in parenting:

Female blue tits that construct bigger nests and decorate them with fragrant plants have male partners that are more willing to invest in raising chicks Spanish researchers report in the journal Behavioral Ecology.

 A female blue tit which is about the size of an adult hand from beak to tail picks her partner based on his colorful blue and yellow plumage and the sweetness of his song.

It s an interaction between sexes. oe Different bird species divide the work of building nests in different ways.

 Female blue tits work alone to build nests although males may add feathers later on. That means the nest may provide a window to the female's health.

After spring mating female blue tits collect moss and grass to construct the base of their nests inside the hollows of trees

or artificial nesting boxes. Females then line those nests with soft hair wool or feathers.

Fit females can also search for hard-to-find plants like mint lavender and rosemary to spruce up the homes for their future nestlings.

But all of this construction takes energy and puts a female in danger of attack from predators.

A haggard female would probably produce a pretty pitiful nest said Montgomerie. After the female finishes the nest both sexes feed

and defend the young. The effort devoted by males is very important in the success of the females

s and his colleagues at Madrid's Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales made some nests smaller and added grass

or removed odorous plants from different nests. Â The researchers found that these features influence the care a male will put into the nestlings

I know of that looks at nest traits themselves and how the male responds said Montgomerie.

 At larger nests and those with strongly scented plants males were more likely to be bolder

when there was danger--than males at smaller nests or those lacking the plants the study reported.

As part of the study the team installed bird traps in blue tit nesting boxes a process that sometimes scared the birds away from home

s believes in part that males who take more risks may be more willing to defend a nest against predators.

whether a male entered the nest first waited for the female to enter as signal that the coast was clear

or didn t enter the nest at all. Tomã¡s and his colleagues used the risk-taking figure to estimate how much the males imperiled themselves in caring for their young. oetaking the average of a bunch of subjective measures is never a good way to estimate something oe said Montgomerie who hopes that the team will follow up with a more detailed

s is interested in exploring more features of nests built by female birds and the signals they may send to males. oepeople thought that its only function was to form a receptacle for the eggs he said.

But he believes the nests may reveal a lot of information about the bird that built it.

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