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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 phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020 Spending time in nature is known to benefit human health and well-being, but evidence is mixed as to whether biodiversity or perceptions of biodiversity contribute to these benefits.
D. Ferraro +6 more
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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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Organizational Conservation and Flexibility in the Evolution of Birdsong and Avian Motor Control
Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 2022 Birds and mammals have independently evolved complex behavioral and cognitive capabilities yet have markedly different brain structures. An open question is to what extent, despite these differences in anatomy, birds and mammals have evolved similar ...
Bradley M. Colquitt
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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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Melodies of the forest: Nature as an improvisational space for shared creative embodiment
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In an era marked by increasing disconnection from nature, innovative approaches to reconnect with the environment are crucial for both ecological and psychological well‐being. This paper explores how natural environments (a deciduous forest of Quebec in the present case study) can serve as an improvisational space for shared creative ...
Antoine Bellemare‐Pepin +2 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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Long-distance dependencies in birdsong syntax
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022 Songbird syntax is generally thought to be simple, in particular lacking long-distance dependencies in which one element affects choice of another occurring considerably later in the sequence. Here, we test for long-distance dependencies in the sequences
W. Searcy +3 more
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