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Beauty and the Beak: A Bald Eagle Rescue Story
When Beauty the bald eagle was injured, though, it wasn’t her wing or leg that took the blow. Instead, a poacher’s bullet ...
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Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and evolution of songbirds
How do they remove the husk of a seed without crushing the nutritious inner kernel? Which beak movements are involved in such a sophisticated task? How fast does the beak move? To answer these ...
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What’s Odd About That Octopus? It’s Mating Beak to Beak.
That mating behavior was such accepted science that in 1982, when Panamanian marine biologist Arcadio Rodaniche reported finding an octopus that mated beak to beak and cohabited between sex acts ...
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Evolution teaching resource: spot the adaptations in Darwin's finches
The different finch species on the islands are closely related to each other, but show wide variations in beak and body size and feeding behaviour. In particular, changes to the size and shape of the ...