The Earth is on fire, although until a lot recently, almost all notable right-wing assassins were (naturally) lighting up their components to make them think otherwise. While there has been a remarkable paradigm shift in the way most of them approach climate change, the fact that they went from “total denial” to “deceptive and nihilistic” what can you do? acceptance ”recently to calm our total contempt for those who so consciously marched humanity to the brink of calamity.
This repulsion only deepens upon knowing it literally Apparently, bird brains noticed what was going on around them and have been adjusting accordingly for generations … well, those who have not died in wholesale mass extinctions, of couse.
Earlier this week, Sara Ryding, an avian researcher at Deakin University in Australia, published new research detailing recent “shape change” physical changes in various bird species to compensate for our roasted planet in the magazine, Trends in ecology and evolution. In particular, their findings examined parts of the body such as beaks, ears and legs, which often help keep animals cooler.
“Appendices play an important, but often underestimated, role in animal thermoregulation as heat exchange sites,” says Ryding and co-authors of his paper, adding, “Animals are changing their morphologies to have proportionately more appendages. grains in response to climate change and its associated temperature increases “.
Based on his work on what is known as the Allen rule — the observable trend that animals in the warmer regions of the planet often have larger appendages to aid in heat exchange — the team highlighted species which include several Australian parrots, which have shown between 4% and 10% higher bills since 1871 than “it correlates positively with summer temperature each yearOther species such as the American dark-eyed reed are used as evidence pointing to “a link between rising bill size and extreme short-term temperature in cold environments.”
Nor are it just the birds that change shape. Ryding’s paper also details certain mammals, such as small rodents, the sizes of their tails and legs are also getting larger to adapt to wild heat changes, as well as some species of bats the wingspan. they increase to cope with their own environmental alterations.
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One more proof that pea-brained creatures really have more common sense and awareness that Ted Cruz in his best days.
[via BoingBoing]
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