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Comment Re:my submission was plagiarised. (Score 1) 123

by grrlscientist on Saturday February 20, 2016 @04:19AM (#51547429) Attached to: The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early

but the point is that I DID NOT POST THAT LINK. my words were stolen to promote a poorly written substitute to the story that i quoted and that i intended to share. if the plagiarist wanted to promote a different story, then that person should never have used MY NAME nor MY WORDS to do so. this bait-and-switch plagiarism should not be allowed to stand on this, or any, reputable site. FYI: here's the link to the story that i shared: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr... i am sure you'll agree that the piece i shared is far superior to the bait-and-switched australian geographic story.

Comment my submission was plagiarised. (Score 1) 123

by grrlscientist on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:22PM (#51544751) Attached to: The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early

i did not submit that link. my headline and my words were stolen and the original link to the story i submitted -- http://www.forbes.com/sites/gr... -- was replaced with the australian geographic link. honestly, the australian geographic story pales compared to the story that i shared.

Submission + - The Heat Is On: Climate Change Causes Birds To Hatch Early (forbes.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Friday February 19, 2016 @09:25AM

grrlscientist writes: A recently published study reveals that climate change can cause birds’ eggs to hatch early. In addition to creating warmer temperatures that trigger early embryonic development in birds, climate change also increases the frequency and duration of heat waves. Thus, warming temperatures are leading to asynchronous hatching of individual eggs within a clutch and increased chick mortality, particularly for birds breeding in the tropics and semi-tropics, and in tropical deserts.

Submission + - People are worse for wildlife than even radiation poisoning (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:16AM

grrlscientist writes: People were evacuated after the Chernobyl accident, but what happened to the local wildlife? A new study shows that wildlife in the Chernobyl disaster zone is thriving, indicating that the presence of humans is more damaging to wildlife and to ecosystems than is radiation poisoning

Submission + - The enemy of my enemy is my friend (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @04:39AM

grrlscientist writes: Tiny hummingbird eggs and babies are a favourite snack for nest-robbing jays, so what’s a mother hummingbird to do to protect her family? According to a study published recently in the journal, Science Advances, the hummingbird cleverly builds her nest near or under a hawk nest. The reason for this seemingly risky behaviour? When hawks are nesting nearby, jays forage higher above the ground to avoid being attacked from above by the hungry hawk parents. This elevation in the jays’ foraging height creates a cone-shaped jay-free safe area under the hawk nests where mother hummingbirds, their babies and nests, enjoy dramatically increased survival rates.

Submission + - Birds reveal evolutionary importance of love (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @08:29AM

grrlscientist writes: A new study finds that birds who freely choose their own mates have 37 percent more offspring than those which were paired up by researchers in a sort of avian ‘arranged marriage’ — findings that have far-reaching implications for conservation and captive breeding practices

Submission + - White sky at night not a city bird's delight (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:43AM

grrlscientist writes: Free-living songbirds show increased stress hormone levels when nesting under white street lights. But different light spectra may have different physiological effects as this study finds, suggesting that using street lights with specific colour spectra may mitigate effects of light pollution on wildlife

Submission + - Life history trade-offs: why tropical songbirds have fewer chicks (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:36AM

grrlscientist writes: Tropical songbirds produce fewer, high-quality nestlings per breeding effort than do songbirds that breed in temperate zones, according to a study published today. This study reports that tropical songbirds’ nestlings grow longer wings, and faster, which means they spend less time in the nest where they are vulnerable to predators

Submission + - Taking flight: Cape parrot identified as new species (theguardian.com) 1

Submitted by grrlscientist on Thursday August 13, 2015 @05:16AM

grrlscientist writes: The endangered cape parrot really is a distinct species, according to a newly-published molecular study — a finding that could impact conservation decisions and strategies in South Africa for decades to come

Submission + - Ribbiting news: venomous frogs discovered in Brazil (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Thursday August 06, 2015 @12:43PM

grrlscientist writes: A team of scientists have identified two species of venomous frogs, a unexpected discovery. While a number of frogs have toxins in their skin and thus are considered poisonous, the term “venomous” is reserved for animals, such as pit vipers, that can inject their toxins into other animals.

Submission + - This new wolf species was disguised as a jackal (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Friday July 31, 2015 @05:07AM

grrlscientist writes: A new species of wolf has been discovered in Africa after exhaustive DNA and morphological analyses revealed it is evolutionarily distinct from the Eurasian golden jackal, which it strongly resembles

Submission + - Scientists finally prove that a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Saturday May 02, 2015 @04:43AM

grrlscientist writes: The Sichuan bush warbler was discovered in a bush after its insect-like song attracted the notice of researchers. Nineteen years on, it has finally been relocated and confirmed as a new species to science

Submission + - Are hurricanes more deadly than himmicanes? (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @11:38AM

grrlscientist writes: A recently published paper claims that the gender of the name given to individual hurricanes is linked to the public's perception of the risk posed by that storm. In short, this study claims that hurricanes given female-sounding names are perceived to be less dangerous than those given male-sounding names (which we refer to here as "himmicanes"). This public underestimation of risk apparently results in hurricanes causing significantly more deaths than himmicanes. We reanalyse the data and find there is no relationship between hurricane name-gender and deaths caused.

Submission + - Open and shut: These brainy birds open their own doors (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Saturday May 31, 2014 @10:57AM

grrlscientist writes: When the University of Victoria in Canada opened a new campus bike centre in the parkade located under the University Centre last November, motion-activated doors were installed to discourage swallows from nesting in the new facility. But when the swallows returned to their familiar nest sites a few weeks ago, they were undeterred by this peculiar impediment: they quickly learned how to open the doors by flying in front of the infrared motion detector.

Submission + - Half-siders: A tale of two birdies (theguardian.com)

Submitted by grrlscientist on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @10:13AM

grrlscientist writes: Chimæras have been big in the news recently. Also known as "halfsiders" or tetragametic chimæras, these unusual animals (or humans!) are actually two genetically distinct individuals — twins — fused into one being. This science news story explores how this accident of nature occurs.

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