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A Zebra Finch investigates a novel foraging task. Photo by Morgan Slevin.
07 May 2020

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Cognition⁠, the Gut Microbiome, and Forty-Two Hungry Zebra Finches

The gut microbiome has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, and Morgan Slevin is studying how its diversity affects cognition in birds.

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The fossil toe bones of Golden and Bald eagles provide hints about how they adapted to Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Photo by Oona Takano.
06 April 2020

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900 Tiny Toe Bones Tell a Story About Prehistoric Eagles

Oona Takano’s research focuses on how something big — Pleistocene megafauna extinctions — affected something very small: the toe bones of eagles.

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A truffle partially eaten by birds. Photo by Matthew Smith.
19 February 2020

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Birds & Truffles in Chile’s Temperate Rainforests

How does a fungal ecologist end up getting a grant from an ornithological society?

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