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The Road Goes Ever On and On: A Path Through the Wilderness on R.S. 2477 Litigation in Alaska [PDF]
, 2015 Seeking to encourage people to settle the public domain, the federal government established the R.S. 2477 right of way, a grant to construct highways over land in the public domain.
Jackson, Michelle
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Testing the strength and direction of selection on vocal frequency using metabolic scaling theory
Ecosphere, 2021 A major challenge for studies assessing drivers of phenotypic divergence is the statistical comparison of taxa with unique, often unknown, evolutionary histories, and for which there are no clear expected trait values.
Clinton D. Francis, Matthew R. Wilkins
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The Role of the Learner in the Cultural Evolution of Vocalizations
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 As a uniquely human behavior, language is crucial to our understanding of ourselves and of the world around us. Despite centuries of research into how languages have historically developed and how people learn them, fully understanding the origin and ...
Abby Chopoorian +2 more
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Multi-Label Classifier Chains for Bird Sound [PDF]
, 2013 Bird sound data collected with unattended microphones for automatic surveys, or mobile devices for citizen science, typically contain multiple simultaneously vocalizing birds of different species.
Briggs, Forrest +2 more
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Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology, EarlyView.We demonstrated that Awaous tajasica performs facultative air breathing under experimental conditions of dissolved oxygen limitation, retaining air bubbles in the buccal cavity during gill ventilation. Morpho‐functional evidence indicates the use of atmospheric oxygen as a respiratory support under conditions of low water oxygenation.
João Pedro Trevisan +3 more
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Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech. [PDF]
, 2019 Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential structure of nonhuman communication is thought to follow non-hierarchical Markovian dynamics ...
Gentner, Timothy Q +3 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Exploration of new wildlife surveying methodologies that leverage advances in sensor technology and machine learning has led to tentative research into the application of seismology techniques. This, most commonly, involves the deployment of a footfall trap – a seismic sensor and data logger customised for wildlife footfall.
Benjamin J. Blackledge +4 more
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Special Article: From Birdsong to Babel: the canine connection in the origin of human language
Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2013 Whistled languages are still found today in many parts of the world, the most celebrated being Silbo, in the Canary Islands. According to Australian Aboriginal legends, it was the birds who taught human beings how to speak.
Graham Pont
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Road Rage and R.S. 2477: Judicial and Administrative Responsibility for Resolving Road Claims on Public Land [PDF]
, 2005 The past decade has seen the D-4 Caterpillar bulldozer become a significant tool for those seeking to challenge federal land management agencies\u27 authority to protect resources federal lands by reducing access.
Birdsong, Bret C.
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L1 transfer in the acquisition of manner and path in Spanish by native speakers of English [PDF]
, 2012 In this article the authors argue that L1 transfer from English is not only important in the early stages of L2 acquisition of Spanish, but remains influential in later stages if there is not enough positive evidence for the learners to progress in their
Adjémian C. +30 more
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