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The Secret Life of Birds

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The Relationship Between Birds and Mammals

Love is a way of bonding humans for the length of time it takes for a human baby to be able to stand on its own feet and eat. But you could say that about chicks, couldn't you? An eggs, that there's a delicate here's a long period where a chick is quite helpless. So it helps to have some form of ritual which keeps the pair togetheryet that's be truant. A harpy eagle chickmight spend 12 months branching next to the nest that it has hatched in because its method hunting is so complex. In mammals, the female suckles the offspring, so the male can just swan off to mix. Whereas in a lot of birds, and

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