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Tag: "parrot" at biology news

ASU researchers finds novel chemistry at work to provide parrot's vibrant red colors

...nary biologists have not really thought hard about parrot coloration," said McGraw. "This research is exposi...pigments in parrots," by McGraw and Mary Nogare, a parrot fancier from Snoqualmie, Wash., published in the Feb. 16, 2005 issue of the journal Biology Letters....

Transport System Smuggles Medicines Into Brain

...nary biologists have not really thought hard about parrot coloration," said McGraw. "This research is exposi...pigments in parrots," by McGraw and Mary Nogare, a parrot fancier from Snoqualmie, Wash., published in the Feb. 16, 2005 issue of the journal Biology Letters....

A whole lot of shaking goin' on triggers early hatching in red-eyed tree frogs

...anging the water, has been spied by a bright green parrot snake. In a twinkling, the snake tears a few eggs ...tin, an assistant professor of biology at BU, used parrot snakes and cat-eye snakes, to find which vibrational cues red-eyed tree frog eggs use to trigger ear...

Disappearing nest egg: Researcher studying declining numbers of macaws

...lorful future. Macaws, the largest members of the parrot family, have seen their numbers decline in recent decades, and that trend is continuing today. Dr. Don Brightsmith, a bird specialist at Texas A&M University's Schubot Exotic Bird Center, part of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedi...

Batfish to the rescue!

...this shift is the over-fishing of weed-eaters like parrot and surgeon fish ?which normally keep the coral clean of weedy growth." Prof. Bellwood and colleagues Prof. Terry Hughes and Andrew Hoey were testing a weed-infested patch of coral near Orpheus Island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef to see wheth...

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