Featuring exquisite colour illustrations not often seen in a scientific monograph, this book brings together up-to-date information on barn owl behaviour, ecology, and evolution. Media reviews "[...] Compared with other Barn Owl books, this one is more towards the academic end of the scale,...
as gauged by home range size, predicted individual reproductive success and parental effort in a large number of barn owl males. We found that individuals breeding in high-quality habitats, which include a large proportion of prey-rich AES habitats, maintained smaller home ranges than individuals i...
Owl is a dedicated system for scientific and engineering computing. The system is developed in OCaml and licensed under MIT. The project is originated by Liang Wang and currently led by Jianxin Zhao. The history of the project is on the Wikipedia....
The barn swallow’s scientific name is Hirundo rustica. Sometimes referred to only as swallows, these birds are members of the Hirundinidae family. This family belongs to the Aves class which consists only of birds. The name is of Greek origin. Hirundo is defined as “swallow” and rustica...
Owl provides a wide range of scientific computing functionalities: mathematical function, from the basiclog,sinetc., to special functions such as the Beta and Gamma functions integration; interpolation and extrapolation statistics and probability; e.g. generation of random number and various distributions...
Dr. Windsor said the next step for the research, which was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Wellcome Trust, is to develop bio-inspired suspension systems for small-scale aircraft. ...
In this study, we estimated the heritability of baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels in barn owl (Tyto alba) nestlings from 8 years of data, using a multivariate animal model based on a behavioural pedigree. We found that baseline and stress-induced corticosterone levels are strongly ...
Lancaster also rejected PETA's claim that the owl experiments have scant scientific footing, referencing astudyon parallels between the neuroscience of birds and mammals. "The study of owls has produced several mechanistic insights not previously reported from studies in other animals, opening up new...
Primary auditory nerve fibers were labelled in the barn owl by localized horseradish peroxidase (HRP) injections into the cochlear nucleus angularis. They were followed to their terminal sites in the hearing organ (basilar papilla), confirming that they were auditory, and to the cochlear nucleus ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 30 January 2015 accepted: 26 June 2015 Published: 22 July 2015 Clock gene polymorphism and scheduling of migration: a geolocator study of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica Gaia Bazzi1, Roberto Ambrosini2, Manuela Caprioli1, Alessandra ...