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In the late 1990s San Miguel Island held 15 foxes, down from about 450; after 44 golden eagles were relocated and 226 captive-bred foxes returned, the island counted roughly 322 in 2024

20+ hour, 48+ min ago   (388+ words) Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a population so small that biologists could have known every animal by name and very nearly…...

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scienceblog.com > t-parrots-video-call-bell-touchscreen-social-learning

Researchers taught 18 pet parrots to ring a bell and select another bird???s picture on a touchscreen to request a video call. During 147 bird-initiated calls, the parrots developed preferred partners and preened, sang and played toward the screen??? while caregi

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1452+ words) Fifteen of the 18 recruited parrots made 147 voluntary calls after training. The behavior was real, but preferred partners and newly learned skills require careful reading. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 11, 2026 · How we edit A parrot ringing a…...

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When pandemic traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge fell to levels not seen since the 1950s, San Francisco's white-crowned sparrows quickly began singing more softly — yet in the quieter city their songs could be heard from roughly twice as far away

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (663+ words) In the spring of 2020, San Francisco went quiet. The parks were closed, the roads through them empty, and the low mechanical hum that had covered the city for decades drained away. Published August 25, 2026 · How we edit That is the heart…...

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Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two summers, and the broadcasting turbines killed up to half as many bats, because a bat avoids air it cannot listen through

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (347+ words) A simple tweak to wind turbines—making them audibly hostile to bats—cut fatalities roughly in half, suggesting a low-cost way to protect a species decimated by the renewable energy boom. Published August 24, 2026 · How we edit The experiment ran on the…...