70 percent of Turkey’s birds are headed toward extinction
January 20th, 2011 |
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Turkey’s wetlands and lakes are drying up, and with them the nation’s bird species are also disappearing. Total bird counts have dropped 50 percent in the past 20 years, and now up to 70 percent of the bird species regularly observed in Turkey are threatened with extinction, according to lhami Kiziro lu, a professor of [...]
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Turkey talk: The social cognition of your Thanksgiving dinner
November 24th, 2010 |
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It is well-known that when the bald eagle was picked for the emblem of America after six years of debate, Ben Franklin expressed his dismay that the turkey was not picked instead. In a letter to his daughter, he wrote, For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal [...]
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