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Birds Born to Fear Red

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 - 12:02:33 - Ehud Rattner

Finches instinctively avoid competitors colored red, rather than learning to fear the color during their upbringing, Australian research concludes...

The World's First Bionic Goose
Monday, July 13th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Not quite the object of science-fiction movies, but futuristic nonetheless - we present you the world's first bionic goose...

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Early Control Of H5N1 Influenza Virus

Sunday, June 21st, 2009 - 19:38:16 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers from Georgia suggest that the cell-signaling protein, interferon type 1, reduced H5N1 influenza virus replication in mice and may offer...

Environment Changes Affect Sparrow's Tune

Sunday, May 17th, 2009 - 14:08:38 - Ehud Rattner

Elizabeth Derryberry of Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science in Baton Rouge found that today's white-crowned sparrows sing the same...

New Theory on Evolution of Flight

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 14:31:06 - Anuradha Menon

Dr Robert Nudds and Dr Gareth Dyke point to the obvious but hitherto overlooked fact that modern birds don't offer many clues about how they arrived...

Human Antibodies Neutralize Avian Flu
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A recent study conducted at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in California, led by Professor Robert Liddington...

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Early Bird Gets the Better Song

Monday, October 27th, 2008 - 10:16:45 - Ehud Rattner

Birds that come from the earlier eggs in a brood are more likely to be better singers, scientists have found. In most bird species, song is used by...

Sing Me Something Smart

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 - 18:07:57 - Ehud Rattner

When shopping for a mate, female zebra finches might choose males with the sweetest song because singing ability advertises intellectual prowess...

Research Predicts Next Endagered Bird Specie

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 16:48:04 - Ehud Rattner

A new complete evolutionary 'family tree' showing how all British bird species are related to each other may provide clues about which ones are at...

New Study Reveals Image Makes the Bird

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 - 08:12:55 - Ehud Rattner

In the world of birds, where fancy can be as fleeting as flight, the color of the bird apparently has a profound effect on more than just its image...

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