Watch the Release of a Wild Bison Herd onto Blackfeet Tribal Land

credit Lauren Monroe Jr. Last Monday, the Blackfeet Nation released 30 wild bison back onto their land, a project 9 years in the making that the tribe believes will also be a momentous occasion for scientists to study the animal in its natural state. The bison, or Iinnii arrived from Alberta, Canada, in 2016 and were …

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10,000 Bricks With Built-in Bird Homes Installed in UK Homes to Give Nest Holes to Swifts

A Manthorpe swift brick – Manthorpe Building Products; a swift by Sylvester Alphonso from Pixabay Tiny birds in the UK are being given free tenements from real estate development companies by installing “swift bricks” in new buildings around the country. Over 30,000 swift bricks—essentially a normal building brick with a hollow inside—have been sold in …

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Dolphin Moms Use ‘Baby Talk’ with Their Calves, Research Shows

A new examination of dolphin vocalizations found that mother bottlenose dolphins whistle at a higher pitch when talking to their offspring, exactly like human mothers do with theirs. While difficult to confirm in theory, a number of highlights from the study reveal the finding to be a robust one, including that the dolphins only used …

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