"Their beaks are really wide and they open their beaks at tremendous angles," Podos said.
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Similar birds had large and small beaks and beaks in between, all related to what kinds of insects and seeds they ate.
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For example, cactus finches had longer, pointed beaks than ground finches, and warbler finches had thinner and more pointed beaks than both.
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The medium ground finches with large beaks had a survival advantage over those with small beaks because they were able to take advantage of large seeds.
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A study of great tits in the UK, where feeders are common, found the bird's beaks have grown over the last 26 years, that British birds had longer beaks than those in the Netherlands, and that birds with genes for longer beaks were more likely to visit feeders, per Science News.
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Some of the jays preferred the pines, and their beaks were longer and pointier, while others who lived and foraged in the scrub oak had developed more blunt-edged beaks.
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The birds are also subjected to painful practices such as fitting their beaks with bits or guards, or slicing off part of their beaks to prevent them attacking each other and self-harming.
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They lurch at each, inflicting damage with beaks and wings.
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Occasionally, though, they'll get their beaks on other miscellaneous items.
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Bird beaks might be evolving to better fit bird feeders.
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Their beaks have also been found in the whales' stomachs.
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The rebels used no guns; chicken beaks were their only weapon.
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We must hope for flippers and beaks — or nothing at all.
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They also found that bird beak length had increased by about a tenth of a millimeter in 26 years, and that birds with longer beaks were more successful at raising offspring, showing selective pressure towards large beaks.
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Birds with bigger beaks were more successful at cracking the large seeds.
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What they definitely have, though, are arrays of whiskers around their beaks.
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They painted the decoys' beaks yellow, the wingtips black, the plumage white.
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All three theropods had beaks but with vestigial, or functionless, tooth sockets.
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Will Smith is beakless, mothers with dementia are beakless, chickens have beaks.
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These whales use their specialized beaks to suck up squid, fish, and crustaceans.
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I felt every moment that I spent slaying thornweavers and collecting bird beaks.
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Both species have mostly black bodies with wrinkled, bald heads and sharp beaks.
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They were stocky like rhinos, toothless and had tusks and turtle-like beaks.
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Most hummingbirds have beaks adapted to the flowers that provide them with nectar.
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Some hummingbirds even have hooked beaks, with serrations that look like shark's teeth.
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This angers them, and they start nipping at me with their buttery beaks.
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Judges have, in general, upheld the right of journalists to stick their beaks in.
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Old maid, Buddy says, his thumbs tapping at his screen like little bird beaks.
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Their beaks are like fingertips and whenever there's something new, their curiosity takes over.
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All the birds had previously been trained to cut strips of cardboard using their beaks.
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WITH THEIR engagingly rainbow-coloured beaks, puffins are the star attraction on the Faroe Islands.
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Our preliminary hypothesis is that the creatures were green or blue, with long cartilaginous beaks.
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Their arched beaks and rough-textured feet enable them to easily grip and handle food.
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Apparently, hummingbirds use their beaks as weapons to pull feathers, stab, and push their competition.
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These human hunters were depicted with some augmentations, such as tails or bird-like beaks.
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Some of those slender, delicate beaks have been reshaped into strong, sharp and dangerous weapons.
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While the industry says such measures are for short periods, critics claim the aggressive behavior that their treatment causes means many are left with the guards attached or their beaks deformed, and they are unable to properly close their beaks on a permanent basis.
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They tagged birds with gene variants for short and long beaks and tracked their feeding habits.
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These vibrant birds with their absurd beaks really aren't just a picture decorating a cereal box.
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Exquisitely inked manuscript records of these marks still exist: lines and crosses scribed across diagrammatic beaks.
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Based on this crowdsourced data, the researchers hoped to discover how bird beaks evolved over time.
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However in isolated areas like the Galapagos or Hawaiian islands, bird beaks continue to evolve rapidly.
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Instead of teeth, they tore at their food with beaks that jutted out of short, crested skulls.
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"A little Birdie told me," the menu began, before encouraging all her guests to "stuff your beaks."
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That morning, they descended upon those fiberglass angels with fervor, affixing beaks to sculptures across Los Angeles.
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For oviraptorosaurs, the beaks were "convergent evolution," when similar features evolve independently among different groups of animals.
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To solve this problem, the industry, instead of giving the chickens more space, trims off their beaks.
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A decade of research shows that males use their beaks like swords to fend off rival mates.
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What they found was that the diversity of bird beaks expanded early on in their evolutionary history.
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The findings, published Thursday in the journal Current Biology, could possibly help scientists understand how bird beaks evolved.
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They have lots of colors, they have beaks, they can fly, and all that other neat birdy stuff.
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The virus at the heart of the disease attacks the feather follicles, beaks and claws of affected parrots.
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"All refugees are like gulls with their beaks out for possible crumbs," Virginia coolly noted in the diary.
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Silver beards of saliva dripped from their beaks, and one by one they tumbled off their branches, dead.
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Or, as in birds, the beaks varied in shape among different species to feed in different ecological niches.
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And on a cold day, the moisture from their breath condenses into steam that emanates from their beaks.
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On an evolutionary scale this transition happened until theropods developed mouths that resembled the bird beaks seen today.
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The finches sing to attract mates, and any change to their beaks has serious implications for their songs.
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They had parrot-like heads and toothless beaks, and some sported head crests, much like modern cassowary birds do .
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These beaks tend to be long and flexible, with soft edges, a blunt tip, and a spoon-like shape.
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Every few seconds, they dipped their beaks to drink, and, in the process, spilled undigested pellets into the water.
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The birds often use their sharp beaks to peck at wounds of other birds and animals, according to WIRED.
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The results are impressively detailed and showcase crustacean and insect exoskeletons, avian beaks, and primate limbs with considerable skill.
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Viewed from above, the flowers looked like huddles of tiny birds with their beaks pressed together and wings flared.
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Unlike most modern birds, many enantiornithines — or "opposite birds" — had beaks with teeth and claws protruding from their wings.
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But in a few species, the males have beaks that are more like swords than devices for nectar drinking.
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The fly larvae hides inside the beaks of the finches, eating the blood and tissue from the inside out.
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"It suggests a mechanism that arrests the development of teeth -- an intermediate pathway for the origin of beaks," he said.
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To swallow fruit whole, their beaks have evolved to open at geometry-defying angles, wider than 90 degrees, he said.
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Kill a bird, and find yourself surrounded by massive flames, as avians with hot beaks gnaw at your roasting flesh.
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BEAKS' owner, Cynthia Mosling, told CNN that the eagle appears to be a mature male, at least 7 years old.
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What they found: The British birds had longer beaks and were more likely to have genes associated with beak length.
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As expected, birds with genetic markers for longer beaks visited bird feeders more regularly than birds without the genetic variation.
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And they have curved bills, unlike the straight beaks of crows and jays that make manipulating tools a bit easier.
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Flamingos are filter feeders, using their beaks to strain tasty morsels out of the water around them as they wade.
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I had long, pointed beaks inside me and had my vagina smeared with cold, blue paint to check for abrasions.
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Their long, spindly legs facilitate graceful movement in water, and their slender, curved beaks allow them to fish with ease.
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But over millions of years, the fearsome beasts evolved into today's flamboyantly feathered birds, replacing their terrifying teeth with beaks.
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The money rolls in, and soon a couple of corrupt white cops are making aggressive requests to dip their beaks.
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The finding is a first for the fossil record and may shed light on why birds have beaks and not teeth.
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But their lack of beaks and mammalian teeth make me not want to assume that they'd have a fully poultry taste.
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They also possessed beaks and specialized teeth for grinding plant material, and are believed to have roamed the landscape in herds.
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And they developed highly specialized beaks to better chow down; the 'I'iwi, for instance, has a curved straw for sipping nectar.
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But there was no golden arrow or blue circle to lead me toward the plainstriders whose beaks I needed to collect.
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After the first eagle was pointed out, I began to see more silhouettes in the distance, sharp beaks in the sun.
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So, if you have varicose veins, be cautious around sharp objects, be they knives, claws, or the beaks of aggressive roosters.
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Studies have found that the birds are ferocious fighters with beaks that have evolved into weapons for male-to-male conflicts.
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ScienceTake Winsomely captured in poems and song, the birds are yielding new secrets about their astounding beaks and penchant for violence.
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The birds — "with their beaks open, all gasping for air," he said — huddled around the faucets, trying to get a drink.
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Also beaks are a great thing to draw, a nice combination of nose and mouth leading to a very distinct form.
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Birds, like fashion designers, can let their tastes get away from them: electric-blue scalps, candy-striped beaks, Day-Glo orange Mohawks.
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We served big platters of cold, jellied meats and swans made of mashed-up radish, with carrot beaks and black sesame eyes.
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Her figures' angst comes through unadulterated, as conspicuous as her horses' formidable musculature, her warriors' barrel chests, and her corvids' menacing beaks.
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Specialized muscles in their beaks allow them to open even when stuck firmly into the hardened winter earth in search of food.
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Studies have found that the birds are ferocious fighters with beaks that have evolved into dangerous weapons for male-to-male conflicts.
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The seemingly perfect match of nectar-bearing flowers to slender nectar-sipping beaks clearly showed that hummingbirds were shaped by co-evolution.
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Image: Pascal Title/Amphibian & Reptile ConservationPredatory arthropods have special body parts, such as modified jaws, big beaks, and large fangs to capture victims.
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Poor lighting, no access to the outdoors, and beak trimming, by which parts of birds' beaks are seared off, are still the norm.
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The other riffs on the iconic 90s VIBE magazine cover by adding chicken beaks to Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, and Tupac.
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So they performed a comparative and statistical analysis of thousands of modern vertebrates to understand the shared characteristics of animals that develop beaks.
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Their data suggested that most of the variation we see in beaks today evolved long ago, in a relatively short period of time.
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Ambergris, for the uninitiated, is a waxy secretion from the bile duct of a whale, the result of indigestible matter like eel beaks.
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Like the horns of bighorn sheep or the giant mandibles of stag beetles, hummingbird beaks are used to fight off rivals for mates.
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In other hummingbird species with weaponized beaks, males set up mating territories right on the richest patches of flowers, again fighting off rivals.
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Russ Curtis of International Bird Rescue says the birds noted for their large, pointy beaks were returned to a beach Friday in Sausalito, California.
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Icadyptes and Inkayacu were human-sized penguins with sharp, heron-like beaks that patrolled the coast of Peru more than 30 million years ago.
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His sculpted ornamentation appears on clocks, vases, sconces, fireplaces and candelabra, with details like furrowed brows on sea gods and intricately serrated swan beaks.
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But scientists do know that modern-day birds are descendants of dinosaurs -- evolving over millions of years to lose their teeth and grow beaks.
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In one study, scientists at Yale and Harvard were actually able to alter chicken embryos to grow the snouts of velociraptors rather than beaks.
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Houndfish are actually feared by many divers and fishermen because of their large size and ability to inflict puncture wounds with their sharp beaks.
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The chicks hatch with sharp hooks at the tips of their beaks, the better to kill their foster-siblings as soon as they hatch.
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Botos live exclusively in the Amazon, Orinoco, and Tocantins River Basins of South America, where they use their long beaks to hunt for fish.
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Hummingbird beaks are also used to snatch insects and for self-defense, but their primary purpose is for nectar feeding—or so we thought.
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Or you don't like having them in your bed because they're like diapered squids suckered onto you with their squid beaks and flailing tentacles.
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One is beautifully painted with formline clan art, while the other is plainly colored, with several rows of Chinese coins sewn above puffin beaks.
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In that novel, human beings develop smaller brains — our big ones were leading us to destroy the world — as well as flippers and beaks.
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When Darwin visited the islands, it was the wide variety of finch beaks that helped him understand how one species could evolve into many.
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Octopuses have beaks in the mouth within the centre of their arms, and it could have bitten her, resulting in swelling and a bad reaction.
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Many of the birds had patches of missing feathers, respiratory issues, and overgrown beaks and claws, which are signs of malnutrition and distress, officials said.
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The width at which they open their beaks functions like the flared end of brass instruments such as trumpets and tubas that amplifies their sound.
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Turns out chicks, ducklings, geese and other poultry are passing on salmonella to their humans in increasing numbers through their droppings, feathers, feet and beaks.
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As new research shows, however, some hummingbirds from South America have evolved beaks designed to poke, prod, and pinch—at the expense of feeding proficiency.
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When the birds arrive in Mauritania in July, the smaller juveniles with shorter beaks cannot dig deep enough to eat their regular diet of clams.
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No two are alike; come along, let's observe: An emperor penguin will toddle for weeks ... 50 miles to bring food back to little chick's beaks.
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At a time when academia can resemble an archipelago, the disciplines more specialized than finch beaks in the Galápagos, Robinson's audaciously heterodox thinking can exhilarate.
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As a child, I was always enchanted by the rapid flutter of wings and long slender beaks that seemed to appear out of thin air.
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Magellanic oystercatchers, black-and-white birds with elongated orange beaks, the better for plucking the meat from the bivalves' shells, peeped hysterically over our heads.
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On Tuesday, a majority of the detainees pressed their beaks to the edge of the fence, looking in the direction of open water and freedom.
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The two birds touched beaks and squawked amiably at each other for a few hours, but eventually Clyde flew off, and Carpenter took Gracie home.
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Yet 180-odd years after Darwin circumnavigated the globe on the HMS Beagle, researchers are still investigating how bird beaks came to be so diverse.
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In the lower righthand corner, two parrot statues are spitting water from their beaks and appear to be... well, doing more than just spitting out water.
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And unlike pigeons, bald eagles are massive, with sharp beaks and claws, and a predisposition to fight back when their food or offspring are being threatened.
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Although they have voracious appetites, sizeable beaks, and talons, a lone, chittering squirrel hero was able to keep multiple jays away from a bowl of peanuts.
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Good afternoon, and welcome to the Golden Beaks, the awards show that dares to ask, Who is the most beloved back-yard chicken in Silicon Valley?
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In their study, Dr. Thomas and collaborators collected 3-D scans of bird beaks from museum specimens representing more than 97 percent of present-day birds.
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It may be that genes constrain how birds can develop, or that the niches birds could fill with different beaks are already occupied by other animals.
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In this work of satire and science fiction, Vonnegut imagines a human species that has evolved to have smaller brains, flippers and beaks for catching food.
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ScienceTake Darwin's finches, those little birds in the Galápagos with beaks of different sizes and shapes, were instrumental in the development of the theory of evolution.
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New research shows that certain British birds appear to be changing quickly as result of bird feeders, evolving longer beaks to help them access the food inside.
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They also panic: They don't eat, and if they make it to shore they ingest the toxic oil while trying to clean their feathers with their beaks.
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Here is proof for their argument: dahi batata puri, hollow puffs with delicate shells, cracked at the top as if from little beaks trying to get out.
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The chick needs to have its head faced toward the parents when it sleeps under them, so parents use their beaks to keep it in proper position.
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Here the public would help by "landmarking" aspects of the different bird beaks, marking areas like the front, back and tip of the beak for each specimen.
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By comparing these details to where a bird sits on its family tree, the researchers were able to determine the way these beaks had evolved over time.
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Then they'll leap into the storm, navigating the gale, and drop down like a deadly lance into their victims to rip them apart with razor-sharp beaks.
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The birds, which tend to be small, with large heads and dagger-like beaks, can dive at speeds up to 25 mph, making McFadyen's photo a difficult shot.
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Rescue officials say the birds, instantly recognizable with their long, pointy beaks, were emaciated, anemic and suffering from other ailments when they arrived at the group&aposs aviaries.
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Shark Bay's dolphins are known for their tool use—specifically the use of sea sponges to cushion their beaks as they root around the ocean floor for fish.
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Its roots came from a nature documentary Hanawalt watched once, which showed toucans using their long beaks to dig into other birds' nests and gobble up their eggs.
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They are on display four days a week, and otherwise fly around or do whatever birds do when they are not picking up cigarette butts with their beaks.
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This week, alongside stunning glimpses of the birds fighting, we tell the story of how evolution has turned the beaks of some hummingbirds into fierce and effective weapons.
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Of greatest concern was the practice of trainers riding dolphins through the water while standing on their backs and beaks, said Dr. Heather Rally, a PETA Foundation veterinarian.
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In their paper, which was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists said that birds with beaks deformed by parasites have more deviation in their songs.
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New research published today in Integrative Organismal Biology shows that males of some tropical hummingbird species from South America have beaks more suited to fencing, poking, and pinching behaviors.
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Once I found the plainstriders, I started killing them, very slowly, one at a time, and found that less than 50% of them had beaks when I looted them.
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Where Audubon's parrots gyrate and foreshorten themselves—one can almost hear them chattering as they press their beaks toward the picture plane—Lear's are sphinxlike in their mysterious stillness.
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They can harbor these nasty bacteria in their feathers, beaks, fecal matter, food, and bedding and readily spread it to any area they touch or in which they roam.
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From my many years of observing hummingbirds, I always assumed that the sole purpose of their long, graceful beaks was to allow them to drink the nectar from flowers.
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They'd spent twelve-hour days placing the baby-soft beaks of chicks into hot-iron guillotines, searing off the tips, while the chicks struggled and their faces smoked. Hens.
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An itch their beaks couldn't scratch Researchers observed two puffins -- one in Wales, one on an Icelandic island (where researchers planted a camera) -- using a stick to scratch themselves.
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That title comes from his materials: the master used real beaks, antlers, horns, lion's teeth, and rabbit ears to create creatures like The Carbonic Walrus and The Two-Horned Drouberhannis.
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Some of these cats come out with a handful of odd features, like beaks instead of regular little cat noses, or they have an eyeball where their butt should be.
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Specifically, the birds are evolving longer beaks, which helps them access food, and in turn boosts their chances of reproducing and passing this fortuitous trait down to the next generation.
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The analysis revealed altered gene sequences linked to facial features, leading the researchers to speculate that the beaks of great tits were adapting to the widespread use of bird feeders.
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The reason, according to a study published Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution, is that the snail kites have rapidly evolved larger beaks and bodies to handle the bulkier snails.
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The bricks are made out of baked birdseed and sugar grouting, and little beaks peck at the untitled artwork by Björn Braun from outside, eating their way into the exhibition.
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Oviraptoridae (not to be confused with oviraptors—that's a different kind of dino) are known for their toothless, parrot-like beaks, and in some cases, elaborate head crests known as casques.
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The best time to see these rare arctic seabirds is during the breeding season, from early May to the beginning of August, when their distinctive beaks are at their colorful peak.
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There's something ominous about those beaks and claws — a reminder that the animals are living dinosaurs that would rule over all of us if it weren't for their relatively small size.
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Though their patchy feathers and lumpy beaks will never go viral on social media, I'll talk them up to tour groups of schoolchildren until my peeping's as hoarse as the patients'.
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It prohibits producers from beak cutting, in which farmers remove part of newborn hens' beaks to prevent pecking, and from starving birds to force them to molt, another unfortunately common practice.
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Thick-billed but not yet white-headed, the young bird has been photographed taking food from the beaks of the older birds, something that is considered a sign of successful breeding.
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Madeon was abducted by a vicious gang of birds, who picked him up by their beaks and lodged him in a particularly dense hedge, where they now feed him regurgitated worms.
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When not hunting (snakes, frogs and voles hang from their beaks), they preen adorably, peer from nest holes in the trunks of trees or plunge through snow in pursuit of prey.
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Instead of opening their beaks, they flick their wings open at their sides to make the Bips, and then snap their wings up over their backs to produce the extraordinary WANNGG.
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Interesting news from our science desk: Scientists long believed that the slender, nectar-sipping beaks of hummingbirds evolved to fit nectar-bearing flowers, but some have been shaped into dangerous weapons.
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So it's also likely that they're an evolutionary oddity with little bearing on modern bird beaks, David Evans, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, told the Christian Science Monitor.
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As the pair, with their white plumes and orange beaks, turned into a flock, she kept as keen an eye on the geese as she did on the Yankees' exposure to risk.
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After reading this article however, I now know that I was missing a piece of vital information: male hummingbirds use their beaks to fight each other and also have a very violent disposition.
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A political cartoon from the late 2030s shows a flock of vultures labeled "FREELOADERS AND FAMINE REFUGEES" perched, beaks agape, atop the Chrysler Building's dome, the waters around them filled with bobbing skulls.
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The finches, for example, were the subject of a famous 40-year study that showed their beaks changed shape as drought and rainfall on the remote Galapagos Islands altered the birds' food supply.
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But tiny village weaver birds with jet black heads and luminescent yellow bodies darted along the shoreline, with blades of grass in their beaks, the raw materials for their hanging, basket-like nests.
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They found that the young birds responded more - by opening their beaks, chirping and looking around - to the song of their own kind, suggesting their experience early in life wasn't determining their song preference.
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Everything about this sequence — the slow build-up; the creepy description of Pennywise; the final dash for freedom after the Derry Town Hall's five o'clock whistle beaks Ben's trance — is spectacularly eerie and tense.
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One leading theory, advanced in 2006, casts ambergris as what could generously be called a rectal pearl: Formed from layers of excrement that accumulated on an indigestible clump of squid beaks and worm cuticles.
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Most recently, researchers at the University of Sheffield have enlisted the public's help in measuring 3D scans of bird beaks from over 2,000 species kept in London's Natural History Museum and the Manchester Museum.
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Image: James Di Loreto, SmithsonianIn the murky waters of the Ganges and Indus rivers, a few thousand blind dolphins swim on their sides, snapping at prey with long, exaggerated beaks and using echolocation to navigate.
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If you look closely at the images, they'll almost always have flaws that indicate they were created by machines, not humans – like birds with blue beaks or fruit stands with odd-shaped bananas (see above).
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And then there are the "unreleasables" whose injuries have left them unable to survive in the wild anymore -- from hawks with broken off beaks to foxes with fractures that healed wrong so they can't hunt.
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LANGFANG, China — The typical market in China has fruits and vegetables, butchered beef, pork and lamb, whole plucked chickens — with heads and beaks attached — and live crabs and fish, spewing water out of churning tanks.
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And the popular notion that doctors wore beaks -- supposedly to protect them from infection -- during the Black Death was also wrong, Black said -- the mask wasn't invented for hundreds of years after the second pandemic.
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"They are constantly sharpening their beaks and as a result will attack and tear apart anything they come across," said NBN Co project manager Chedryian Bresland in a blog post on the company's website on Friday.
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Scavenging for food, the birds have been scooping them up in their beaks, eating them, and then regurgitating them on the uninhabited Mullion Island, about a kilometer (just over half a mile) off the Cornish coast.
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Still others hoisted finished bird bodies — or parts of them — over open flames, which coaxes color out of the glass, or used metal instruments to fashion beaks and tails from melted glass the consistency of honey.
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Their eyes, meanwhile, have come to be situated in the narrow front of their face, affording them a more intensely focused, binocular vision — prying beaks and eyes coalescing to form the perfect foraging and nesting machine.
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According to a new study from researchers at Flinders University in Australia, a parasite is attacking the beaks of two finches—the small tree finch ( C. parvulus) and the critically endangered medium tree finch ( C. pauper).
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The tropical bird that can make trans-Atlantic flightsThey don't look incredible: from afar frigatebirds are black and gray with white patches and long, hooked beaks; though close up their feathers are iridescent dark greens and blues.
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The process could seem like something between a mud-wrestling match and a fight to the death: horrific, in the instances of chickens plucked naked and strung up by the neck, their beaks agape as if screaming.
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Around us, good fish was for sale in every direction: live baby squid; upside-down octopus splayed like tentacled stars; a pair of swordfish lay poised on a wood crate, their beaks crossed in a petrified duel.
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And he invites us to attend events like the astonishing magpie funeral: One by one, the birds lay blades of grass around their fallen mate, then nod to tap the corpse with their beaks in silent farewell.
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In the beaks of toucans, the shells of abalones and leatherback turtles, and the scales of pangolins and alligators, he has discovered structures that, when synthesized or mimicked in the lab, could have potential real-world applications.
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Both dinosaurs were members of a group called ceratopsians that included the well-known Triceratops, typically possessing parrot-like beaks to crop low-growing herbs and shrubs, a bony neck shield, or frill, and forward-pointing facial horns.
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But the infallible delight here is in the long, arcing necks of the sweet éclair swans, piped through a tiny plain tip into great exaggerated question marks, their beaks blackened by quickly running through a flame after baking.
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With their elongated beaks tied carefully, the dolphins are brought to a floating research center in the Mamirauá reserve, where members of Silva's team take blood samples and use a syringe to suction milk from dolphin mothers for testing.
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But lest we get the message that the flamboyant beaks are merely serving as a distraction from problematic legs, we learn not just that Bob no longer worries about his skinny legs — "he is now rather proud of them!"
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Pappas writes a monthly poetry column for Women's Running magazine, musing on topics including the sublime scent of trail running ("steeped on me like tea") and the sweet pain of sprinting (her insides "gasping screeching flapping baby bird beaks").
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The population of North American snail kites — birds that use curved beaks and long claws to dine on small apple snails in the Florida Everglades — had been dwindling for years, from 3,500 in 203 to just 700 in 2007.
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There are woodpeckers that can climb by jamming their beaks into walls, octopi that can create streams of water to fly like a jetpack, and Easter Island-style statues with the ability to see hidden pathways by putting on sunglasses.
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These two-legged, flightless animals were close relatives of birds; their skulls tapered off into sharp parrot-like beaks with no teeth and many of them sported ornamented cranial crests that paleontologists think could have been used as sexual displays.
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Mutilations, such as clipping pigs' teeth and hens' beaks, are actually encouraged if "needed to promote the animal's welfare," and in organic dairy facilities, calves can also be confined for up to six months of age, according to USDA regulations.
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Another option—entirely unlikely, but desirable—is that they're hiding out in some kind of swan hovel, the avian equivalent of a mafia backroom, sharpening their beaks, chiseling their talons, and plotting their sweet, sweet swan revenge on this asshole.
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The giant squid has long been an exemplar of this reality: a gargantuan creature, yet known to humans only because dead specimens washed ashore or huge squid beaks were found in the stomachs of sperm whales, the animals' primary predator.
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Abe is given his quest by a shaman who explains that Abe needs to restore the independence of the paramites, a violent spider-hand creature who lives in deep forests, and the scrabs, a desert-dwelling group of walking beaks.
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Sure, the basic premise sounds like The Odd Couple with beaks, but with Haddish onboard and judging by how well BoJack Horseman subverted washed-up actor tropes, it's safe to say that Tuca & Bertie won't just be another mismatched duo story.
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" In honor of her daughter on the way, Simpson threw a "Birdie's Nest" baby shower in January, revealing her baby girl's name in the process, that was complete with a neon sign and whimsical table settings encouraging guests to "stuff your beaks.
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I have spent many hours at hawker centers, for a quick meal or to sip on a fresh sugar-cane juice and watch myna birds with sun-colored beaks and slick black feathers chirping and hopping between tables, waiting for falling scraps.
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In a recent paper organizing and summing up 10 years of research, Alejandro Rico-Guevara and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, shared evidence gathered by high-speed video about how the deadly beaks are deployed in male-to-male conflict.
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One morning last week I looked out the window and saw six bluebirds gathered in a ring around the edge of it, dipping their beaks into the bowl over and over again while the air above the heated water puffed into fog in the cold.
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An investigator, working for Sparboe on a traveling crew that visited eight facilities in three states, got footage of workers burning the beaks off baby chicks, throwing chickens by the neck, and leaving dead chickens to rot in cages they shared with live birds.
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No matter how relentlessly the birds had been pecked at and bitten by older siblings, no matter how often food had been snatched from their beaks or how slowly they had grown, on reaching maturity the once-persecuted birds proved surprisingly confident, capable — unflappable.
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An undercover investigator, working for Sparboe on a traveling crew that visited eight facilities in three states, got footage of workers burning the beaks off baby chicks, throwing chickens by the neck, and leaving dead chickens to rot in cages they shared with live birds.
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About 30 hunters dressed in whatever protective gear they could find: Despite the heat, some wore winter coats to cover their forearms and torsos; some covered their heads by wrapping mosquito netting around plastic construction helmets and separated the mesh from their faces with beaks of bamboo.
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In the Sketch Book Revue, for example, a pair of ostriches wag their tails and snap their beaks just inches from the crowd's faces; a slinky black cat dressed as a jazz singer swishes her way into children's laps; clowns on unicycles lean in for surprise embraces.
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In "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex" he devoted equal space to both the sorts of sounds that emerge from birds' beaks and the more percussive noises that they make with other parts of their bodies, such as their feet and feathers.
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The region is a hotspot for trade in protected species: an EIA team that visited the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos, popular with Chinese tourists, found tiger-bone wine, bear-bile pills, pangolin scales and carvings from the beaks of helmeted hornbills openly on sale.
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The template used to show the birds the right size of paper was not available to them when they made their "tools," yet the crows were able to use their beaks to tear off bits of paper, which they sometimes held between their feet for leverage.
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Black kites and whistling kites have even been known to light fires using burning sticks carried in their talons or beaks from areas that are on fire, in order to capitalize on burned or exposed prey — they also feed on fleeing grasshoppers on the edge of blazes.
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The New York Times compared the requirements foods need to meet in order to be considered Certified Humane, American Humane Certified, or Animal Welfare Approved and found that the former two labels still allow hens' beaks to be trimmed and don't require that cattle have continuous access to pasture.
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For example, their second record is an eight-track LP called Made of Waves that features guest vocals from Frank Turner, Arrows of Love's Lyndsey Lupe, and Crushed Beaks' Matt Poile, and they've chosen to celebrate this by releasing a video for one of the album's three instrumental cuts.
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The genre-skipping Michigan grind trio have just released two compilations, Silk Panic and Clipped Beaks, that lovingly gather up tracks that had been hithero scattered across a series of splits with other like-minded sonic destroyers like Crevasse, Disrotted, Moloch, Drugs of Faith, Test, and The World Is A Vampire.
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As the birds dip their beaks, the slope of their necks directs the viewer's gaze downward, to a table in front of the picture, on which sit three objects: what looks like an oblong chunk of black rock, a pile of rocks tied together with string and shards of pottery similarly bound.
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Alix Harvey, an aquarist at the Marine Biological Association in England, noted that octopuses, members of a class of marine animals including squid and cuttlefish called Cephalopoda, have shown themselves to be adept at escaping through spaces as small as a coin, constrained only by their beaks, the only inflexible part of their bodies.
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The Dallas race — known as the Dallas Y.M.C.A. Turkey Trot — is now more than 50 years old, and like many of the races, encourages people to come in costume, which set the stage for a Guinness World Record in 2011: With 661 people in feathers and beaks, the race became the largest gathering of people dressed as turkeys.
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You might recall when Google created a hallucinatory tool called Deep Dream, which produced psychedelic distortions when you fed it an image and which went viral when people used it to create hallucinatory mash-ups like a doll covered in a pattern of doll eyes and a portrait of Vincent Van Gogh made up in places of bird beaks.
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A beach-and-ocean spread in "Animals Around the World," which presumably takes place near Australia, shows crabs scurrying up the sand, cartoonish whales and squid swimming through the bottom of the page, airplanes and blimps flying among sea gulls and messenger birds (holding envelopes in their beaks), and a few hapless characters we meet at the beginning with instructions to find them on every page.
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We do not have nearly the space here for me to explain the particular magic of these birds — the comedy of their bowling-pin proportions, the expressiveness of their head tilts, the way they cluster on rocky islands but then scatter off, flapping madly, bullet-shaped in the air, only to dive and plunge into the sea, emerging with beaks full of sagging silver fish.
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More from the Verge:President Obama creates two controversial national monuments in Utah and NevadaVera Rubin, who confirmed dark matter, has died at 88 These weird little dinosaurs lost all their teeth and grew beaks as they aged, new science says "In fact, hospital networks experience constant attempts of intrusion and attack, which can pose a threat to patient safety," says Suzanne Schwartz, the FDA's associate director for science and strategic partnerships, in a blog post about the new guidelines.
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We have two dogs, though, and chickens, and we have let our trees grow full and mighty, to block out the concrete structures pressing in on us, and high on one tall tree in our back lawn, far above the treehouse wrapped around lower branches near its base, floats a nest that belongs to a pair of birds of prey that my children call hawks but are in actuality black kites: brown with light and dark markings the color of parched earth and damp soil, patterns like scale armor on their breasts, powerful, hooked beaks and wingspans wide enough to startle, almost equal to the outstretched arms of a man.
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