«Researchers seek to improve welfare in captive
birds of prey through olfactory enrichment.»
For the first time, researchers are exploring ways to improve welfare in captive
birds of prey through olfactory enrichment - or using scent cues to alleviate boredom and encourage species - appropriate behavior.
Not exact matches
Learn all about farm life, explore the forest, field, and wetlands looking for tracks and signs
of plants and animals that live at Drumlin Farm year - round, discover the special adaptations that make
birds of prey such skilled hunters, or journey back in time to learn about growing up in New England
through cooking, stories, and games.
Instead, the researchers speculate that the
birds were responding to movements
of their aquatic
prey timed to the spring - neap tide cycle, a hypothesis that could be confirmed
through a study jointly tracking predator and
prey abundance.
You can enjoy a half - day experience which takes you
through the stages
of training a
bird of prey.
Each fall, thousands
of birds of prey migrate
through the Marin Headlands - and Hawk Hill is the best vantage point to observe and count them!
All interns will learn how to trap, band, and take morphometrics on
birds of prey that migrate
through the Marin Headlands.
See free flying
birds of prey, meet rare and endangered animals in the nocturnal house, and take a cinematic journey
through millions
of years
of desert evolution.
Gaze at the magnificent
birds of prey looping
through the sky and swooping down to the trainers» gloved fists, and get close - up - and - personal with the
birds for a photo, if you wish.
Empathetic to such subjects as a plover flying
through the mist, a snake holding its
prey in the moonlight, surf
birds cradled in the sea, or a raccoon safely curled up in hibernation for the winter, Graves revealed the mysteries
of nature as if he himself were the subject.
Despite his career choice, he has proved his commitment to the environment
through his work as chairman
of the Nature Conservancy, his involvement with the Peregrine Fund, which seeks to preserve
birds of prey and
through the Bobolink Foundation, an environmental charity he set up 21 years ago.
«The Robirds are robotic
birds of prey that fly just like a real
bird,
through flapping wing motion,» Wessel Straatman, an R&D engineer at Clear Flight Solutions, told Digital Trends.
«By mimicking their natural counterparts
through silhouette and behavior, they are indistinguishable from real - life
birds of prey to other
birds.