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Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Birds:

and creepers that blocked their way. Over time, their perseverance paid off as their hand-drawn maps began to reveal long-forgotten parts of the massive Mayan city of Caracol.

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

including a low-cost nutcracker for farmers in Morocco and a solar-powered incubator for guinea fowl in Burkina faso.

A century ago, vast flocks of passenger pigeons covered the North american skies. Hundreds of millions, even billions, stretched across the horizon in every direction.

the last known passenger pigeon, died in Cincinnati Zoo. But if Church has his way, this majestic sight could one day return to our skies.

he and other scientists are dreaming up ambitious plans to resurrect long-dead animals from pigeons to Tasmanian tigers and wooly mammoths.

 The same technologies could also prevent endangered species from going the way of the dodo oe or the passenger pigeon.

though he does not underestimate the effort required to bring the passenger pigeon back to the skies.

Armed with this code, they then need to find a way of engineering a regular pigeon's stem cells into behaving like a passenger pigeon's stem cells by mutating the genome.

Church says the complete genome of the passenger pigeon from museum specimens will soon be published and researchers are beginning to alter the genetic make-up of a more familiar bird oe the chicken oe to practice their techniques."

"What you can do for chicken you should be able to do for pigeon, and that can include creating DNA that you haven't seen alive for a 100 years,

 he says. But even if Church has the passenger pigeon's full genetic code, which he expects to recreate within a decade,

Church admits that bringing it back to life requires a significant improvement in existing genome engineering technologies.

However, he admits that creating a passenger pigeon from the stem cells of an ordinary pigeon would involve a massive scale up of the same technologies.

"If there's enough people enthusiastic about bringing an extinct species like a mammoth or passenger pigeon,

can play the songs of more than 900 bird species. Using microphones, it can also capture the chirps

and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species

and can solve whatever new problems this fledgling new industry blows their way. 18. Data Hostage Specialists Holding people as hostages is very messy.

or bird damage that leaves most apples somewhat marginalized. They may be perfectly good on the inside,

a number of related technologies have emerged giving the fledgling new industry a number of new options.

maker of Angry Birds, is expected to clear $100 million in revenue this year (the company was nearly bankrupt

The iphone and ipad have about 700,000 apps, from Instagram to Angry Birds. Yet with the American economy yielding few good opportunities in recent years, there is debate about how real,

And unlike Angry Birds on your phone, Strap Game (that s the official name) will alert you

and technological development in general#hen clearly a less high-tech approach would be just as or even more effective#s just delusional.

nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,

Parrot officially unveiled the follow-up to its popular quadrocopter at CES AR Drone 2. 0 Flying Drones

or bird damage that leaves most apples somewhat marginalized. They may be perfectly good on the inside,

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,

avoid big rocks#hen sent out to test them by trial and error. This is slow, painstaking work, but it s easier to predict

when a collision seems imminent#hen the car ahead breaks hard, for example, or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic.

So how long will it be before we see a revived version of the passenger pigeon (extinct in 1914), the Tasmanian tiger (extinct in 1936),

if California condors go extinct, it s unclear if they could ever be brought back fully, because young condors rely on their parents for training.

will revived a species learn to adapt to its new environment? Will they be able to reproduce in sufficient number to ever be fully viable?

If the technique proves successful (such as with the passenger pigeon), it might be applied to the many other extinct species that have left their#oeancient DNA#in museum specimens

when a flock of birds flew over than when I applied the sound. Now, there are going to be some animals that you either get your rifle

We have developed trunks that feature ungulates, bears, owls, creepy-crawlies, water, and tracks. Each of the trunks includes between 15#20 books on the subject,(both fiction and non-fiction;

and birds you see along the way.#(#Hillsboro Public library, Hillsboro, Oregon) From the Ashland Branch Library of the Jackson County Library Services:

Owl Pellets#A presentation on owls where the kids and adults take apart owl#oepellets#to see what they have eaten and digested.

6. Swarmbots Groups of flying drones that move like flocks of birds, schools of fish,

nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,

our kite-surfers head to the beach and then get online later. That s just what they do,

while a ship gets bogged down by barnacles as it crosses the ocean a shark swimming in the same ocean remains clean as a whistle.

All the different colors can fit into a corner of a pixel in your iphone said Jay Guo professor of engineering

The passenger pigeon the dodo and the woolly mammoth are just a few of the species wiped off the Earth by changing environments and human activities.

Reviving the passenger pigeon The passenger pigeon filled the skies of North america in flocks of millions during the 19th century.

But hunting and habitat destruction steered the birds to extinction. The world's last passenger pigeon Martha died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio.

But what if scientists could bring them back? Writer and environmentalist Stewart Brand founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and his wife Ryan Phelan founder of the genetics company DNA Direct wondered

Working with Harvard biologist George Church they figured out a possible way to revive passenger pigeons.

You can't simply clone a passenger pigeon museum specimen because they no longer have fully intact genomes.

Using fragments of the passenger pigeon DNA scientists could synthesize the genes for certain traits and splice the genes together into the genome of a rock pigeon.

The cells containing the passenger pigeon DNA could be transformed into cells that produce eggs and sperm

which could be injected into rock pigeon eggs. The pigeons that hatched would be rock pigeons but their offspring would resemble passenger pigeons.

Scientists could then breed these birds and select for specific traits as a dog breeder might.

Eventually the resulting offspring would appear very much like the passenger pigeon. But that's not the only extinct animal scientists have their sights on reviving.

Woolly mammoths next? Other scientists dream of bringing back a beast that roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago:

the woolly mammoth. Well-preserved mammoths have been dug out of the Siberian tundra containing bone marrow skin hair and fat.

Even if researchers succeed in creating a mammoth passenger pigeon or other extinct creature it has to survive in the wild.

For example the passenger pigeon was a very social bird known to form flocks of millions. When their numbers dwindled to a few thousand the birds stopped breeding Ehrenfeld told Livescience.

De-extinction methods would produce just a handful of birds so who's to say they would reproduce?

he said. What's more the pigeons that raised them would be a different species with differing mothering techniques.

The environment is different in every respect Ehrenfeld said. Temple took a more moderate view.

Resurrecting a creature like the passenger pigeon or woolly mammoth has a strong appeal to the public's imagination Temple said.

If it hadn t been for birds I doubt if anyone would have thought even that it might be possible for something heavier than air to get airborne.

The bird s wing performs two separate tasks both of which are essential. By its shape it provides lift

but transferring the power function to an engine and propeller something no bird ever possessed.

and budget hawks who see the roughly US$6-billion-a-year benefit as wasteful spending on a mature industry.

The shape looks like a Kingfisher. Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action

The Kingfisher O'brien explains was flown typically for observation and to rescue downed pilots. If they were in this deep it would have been on a risky endeavor.

Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.

Well it's not a Kingfisher he says. After descending to the plane O'brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing.

In Kingfishers it was situated in front. He'd also detected a subtle distinction in the shape of the fuselage near the tail.

The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.

Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins but I guess we can. You can do it with any sort of satellite cell from an animal.

The leftovers were taken home for Dr. Post's children. well with any new product lets see what happens to the first few people who eat this

Would you like to try our new Bald eagle petri-nuggets? http://www. joesid. comsounds great! Does it have less purines that a regular hamburger

and diversity of fish and bird populations trap silt and expand the riparian border. I'm curious

Nilton Renno a professor at the University of Michigan and an atmospheric convection expert believes Michaud's calculations assume that AVES cover the entire surface area of Earth.

While the theory behind AVES is solid scaling them up to the size AVETEC requires could go awry Renno says.

He believes that his AVES have the potential to be a major electrical energy producer and one that will be cost-effective.

Building AVES will reduce our reliance on fossil fuels he says and that will reduce emissions in turn.

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Another photo depicts a dead albatross on Midway Island in the Pacific its open stomach revealing hundreds of brightly colored plastic bits.

But what we discovered was flapping-wing birds and insects are suited perfectly for environments where you have dynamic obstructions he trees are moving the branches are moving.

and encoded ASCII letters spelling out RICE OWLS into the bits. Setting adjacent bits to the on state--usually a condition that leads to voltage leaks and data corruption in a 1r crossbar structure--had no effect on the information he said.

Last year Lou and Ajayan revealed their success at making intricate patterns of intertwining graphene and hbn among them the image of Rice's owl mascot.

#Songbirds may give insight to nature vs. nurtureon June 3rd Jove will publish a research technique that allows neural imaging of auditory stimuli in songbirds via MRI.

or the zebra finch used in the Jove article are unique as they provide a landscape for scientists to study song acquisition storage and regurgitation.

The birds are also much easier to maintain and study in laboratories than other vocal animals like apes.

and her colleagues can image the brains of live birds in a noninvasive environment. MRI is used widely with human beings

which makes any findings derived from songbirds highly applicable to working with the human brain. Until recently fmri in small animals was focused mainly on rats

Thus far songbird brains have been studied using electrophysiological and histological techniques. However these approaches do not provide a global view of the brain

Using the songbird model and MRI as an in vivo tool allows us to answer many questions related to learning language and neuroendocrinological plasticity.

or between genetically modified songbirds and naturally occurring ones. Results of these trials will allow researchers to gain insight into genetic and social components of behavior bringing insight to the Nature vs.

and reproduce behavioral experiments such as bird fmri techniques as described in Dr. Van der Linden's article which are both novel and technically complex.

whether to protect the bird as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to hold another public comment period this spring before voting on the issue Sept. 30.

The bird is now found only in restricted areas of five states in the southern Great plains:

Nesting hens will avoid nesting near humanmade structures and disturbances in habitat from roads to buildings to the conversion of native grasslands to cropland.

if you have a good year for reproduction enough new birds enter the population and have a survival rate that carries them through three

For seeds and fruit in particular bright color is thought to have evolved to attract the agents of seed dispersal especially birds.

Deceived birds eat the fruit and ultimately release its seeds over a wide geographic area. The fruit of this bastard hogberry plant was scientifically delightful to pick says principal investigator Peter Vukusic Associate professor in Natural Photonics at the University of Exeter.

#Technology tracks the elusive Nightjarbioacoustic recorders could provide us with vital additional information to help us protect rare and endangered birds such as the European nightjar new research has shown.

The study led by Newcastle University found that newly developed remote survey techniques were twice as effective at detecting rare birds as conventional survey methods.

Using automated equipment to record the nightjars at dawn and dusk when the birds are most active the team found a 217%increased detection rate of the nightjar over those carried out by specialist ornithologists.

Published this month in the academic journal PLOS ONE lead author Mieke Zwart said the findings suggest that automated technology could provide us with an important additional tool to help us survey

and protect rare birds. The results of this research will help conservationists monitor endangered species more effectively explains Mieke who carried out the research as part of her Phd supported by Baker Consultants Ltd

and Wildlife Acoustics Inc. The European nightjar for example is only active at night and is camouflaged very well making it difficult to detect using traditional survey methods.

Using bioacoustics techniques we can more accurately build up a picture of where these birds are population numbers movement and behaviour.

The nightjar--Caprimulgus europaeus--is a migratory species protected under the Birds Directive (Directive 2009/147/EC) and in the UK by the classification of Special Protection Areas (SPAS.

Traditional bird survey methods involve specialist ornithologists conducting field surveys to identify and count the birds they encounter.

But these are time-consuming must be performed by experts and could be inaccurate when surveying species that are difficult to detect.

and analysis software the technology is trained'to automatically recognise the calls of individual species in this case the nightjar.

and could be applied to a wide range of species to give more accurate objective data on bird numbers and distribution.

and soil coming from intensive livestock farms (farms with a population of over 40000 hens 2000 fattening pigs

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