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If you’re looking for #CORVID19 information, I, a corvid scientist, am happy to oblige. Here’s 5 things we learned about corvids in 2019:
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@florian_krammer
@HelenBranswell
If you’re looking for #CORVID19 information, I, a corvid scientist, am happy to oblige. Here’s 5 things we learned about corvids in 2019:
1) Townsend et al. taught us that eating McDonalds burgers gives crows higher cholesterol.
This may not seem surprising but very few studies have actually evaluated how eating trash affects the health of urban birds. What was surprising though is that it wasn’t a bad thing.
This may not seem surprising but very few studies have actually evaluated how eating trash affects the health of urban birds. What was surprising though is that it wasn’t a bad thing.
It was revealed that a high cholesterol diet resulted in study birds (i.e. those given a McDonalds burger everyday) having a higher body condition relative to control birds.
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