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		<title>The family of birds that was rated most deliberate was herons; the family of birds that was rated quickest was swifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After doing some content analyses, Morgan Worthy (I Have Known the Eyes Already) asked 100 ornithologists to make blind ratings of large families of birds on “quick-versus-deliberate” behavior related to flight, feeding, and escape: Twenty-one agreed to do so. Some left out those families with which they were not very familiar. I included in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>One is a stalker; the other is a chaser</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are out in the yard with your pet, Morgan Worthy explains (in I Have Known the Eyes Already), and it sees a squirrel nearby, what it does next will probably depend on whether your pet is a cat or a dog: The immediate response of a cat is to freeze, then crouch and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Yellow-eyed predators use a tactic of wait without moving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morgan Worthy, in the opening to his memoir, I Have Known the Eyes Already, explains his hypothesis about eye-color: One day, probably in early 1971, I was looking through a magazine dealing with (American) professional football. I noticed, once again, that there were many African-American players who had made it to this advanced level of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Microbes may hold the key to brain evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a controlled lab experiment, researchers implanted gut microbes from two large-brain primate species (human and squirrel monkey) and one small-brain primate species (macaque) into microbe-free mice: Within eight weeks of making changes to the hosts&#8217; microbiomes, they observed that the brains of mice with microbes from small-brain primates were indeed working differently than the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Reindeer eyes change hues with the seasons</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2025/12/reindeer-eyes-change-hues-with-the-seasons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2013, scientists discovered that reindeer eyes change hues with the seasons: If you look into the eyes of an Arctic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) in the summer, when the days are long and the Sun is bright, you will see shining back a gold and turquoise glow, similar to the emerald reflection of cats&#8217; eyes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Primates originated in cold environments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Primates originated in cold environments, not the tropics: It is easy to see why scientists had assumed primates evolved in warm and wet climates. Most primates today live in the tropics, and most primate fossils have been unearthed there too. But when the scientists behind the new study used fossil spore and pollen data from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The first breeders unsurprisingly selected for temperament</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple small mutations helped turn skittish animals into the creatures humans could saddle and ride: Researchers led by Xuexue Liu and Ludovic Orlando analyzed horse genomes spanning thousands of years, tracking 266 genetic markers tied to traits like behavior, body size, and coat color. Their results, published in Science, suggest that early domestication didn’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Aalborg Zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posting on Instagram, the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark has made a modest proposal to feed its large predators: A zoo in Denmark has appealed to the public to donate their healthy unwanted pets as part of a unique effort to provide food for its predators. Aalborg Zoo has asked for donations of live chickens, rabbits, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of the Dire Wolf?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time magazine announces the return of the dire wolf: The dire wolf once roamed an American range that extended as far south as Venezuela and as far north as Canada, but not a single one has been seen in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct. Plenty of dire wolf remains have been discovered [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The medieval house might have been built to specifications approved by a rodent council</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 15:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dozens of rodents carry plague, Ed West notes, but it would only become deadly to humans when Yersinia pestis infected the flea of the black rat (Rattus rattus): Black rats are sedentary homebodies and don’t like to move more than 200 metres from their nests; they especially like living near to humans, which is what [&#8230;]]]></description>
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