Human uses of birds have, for thousands of years, included both economic uses such as food, and symbolic uses such as art, music, and religion. In terms...
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Human uses of animals include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology...
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coexistence of avian dinosaurs (birds) and humans is well established historically and in modern times. The coexistence of non-avian dinosaurs and humans exists...
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Human uses of bats include economic uses such as bushmeat or in traditional medicine. Bats are also used symbolically in religion, mythology, superstition...
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Human uses of mammals include both practical uses, such as for food, sport, and transport, and symbolic uses, such as in art and mythology. Mammals have...
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elephant birds. Wings, which are modified forelimbs, gave birds the ability to fly, although further evolution has led to the loss of flight in some birds, including...
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Human uses of living things, including animals plants, fungi, and microbes, take many forms, both practical, such as the production of food and clothing...
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Hamas has been accused of using human shields in the Gaza Strip, purposely attempting to shield itself from Israeli attacks by storing weapons in civilian...
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Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals...
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Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In...
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"The birds and the bees", is an American colloquial expression referring to a rite of passage in the lives of most children when parents explain human sexuality...
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difficulty of defining or measuring intelligence in non-human animals makes the subject difficult to study scientifically in birds. In general, birds have relatively...
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Honeyguide (redirect from Honey guide bird)
are a family of birds in the order Piciformes. They are also known as indicator birds, or honey birds, although the latter term is also used more narrowly...
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Talking birds are birds that can mimic the speech of humans. There is debate within the scientific community over whether some talking parrots also have...
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Elephant birds are extinct flightless birds belonging to the order Aepyornithiformes that were native to the island of Madagascar. They are thought to...
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birds in 2012. Allan, J. R.; Bell, J. C.; Jackson, V. S. (1999). "An Assessment of the World-wide Risk To Aircraft From Large flocking Birds". Bird Strike...
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Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of...
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Birds of a feather flock together is an English proverb. The meaning is that beings (typically humans) of similar type, interest, personality, character...
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Hearing range (redirect from Range of human hearing)
but certain kinds of birds can hear infrasonic sounds. "Birds are especially sensitive to pitch, tone and rhythm changes and use those variations to...
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Psittacosis (category Bird diseases)
of birds belonging to the family Psittacidae, whereas ornithosis is used when other birds carry the disease. In humans, after an incubation period of...
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birds (Greek) – man-eating birds Tengu (Japanese) – has human and bird characteristics, name means dog Three-legged bird (various cultures) Thunderbird...
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"'Birds' Pecks Away at Human Beings". Los Angeles Times. p. 13. "The Birds". Variety. March 27, 1963. p. 6. Boyum, Joy Gould, ed. (1971). "The Birds: Brendan...
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by humans, with prices up to about $4,300 per pound ($9,500/kg) depending on grading. The type or grading of a swiftlet nest depends on the bird species...
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Caprimulgiformes Family: Apodidae Swifts are small birds which spend the majority of their lives flying. These birds have very short legs and never settle voluntarily...
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Ornithology (redirect from Study of Birds)
varied and include the use of bird liming for perching birds, mist nets for woodland birds, cannon netting for open-area flocking birds, the bal-chatri trap...
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Guano (redirect from Bird droppings)
input-intensive farming. The demand for guano spurred the human colonization of remote bird islands in many parts of the world. Unsustainable seabird guano mining...
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characters, Angry Birds Toons (2013–2016), a televised animated series, and two films; The Angry Birds Movie (2016) and its sequel The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019)...
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Birdsong in music (redirect from Birds in music)
duet with birds. Authors including Rothenberg have claimed that birds such as the hermit thrush sing on traditional scales as used in human music, but...
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Avian influenza (redirect from Influenza in birds)
flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans. Wild aquatic...
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language, or speech, of the birds (manṭiq al-ṭayr). Attar’s death, as with his life, is subject to speculation. In the poem, the birds of the world gather...
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