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And I have been fortunate enough to find things like the first eggs in the Western hemisphere and the first baby dinosaurs in nests, the first dinosaur embryos and massive accumulations of bones.
So he put the material in places where the birds were going to collect them, and they crafted his nests for him.
It happened again about 120 or a 140 million years ago when some solitary wasps began creating little simple, primitive nests, or hives.
Then the nest maintenance workers work inside the nest, and I wanted to say that the nests look a lot like Bill Lishman's house.
And when we dig up nests we find they're about as deep as the colony is wide, so about a meter deep for the big old nests.
Other chimps would bring food to him, they would bring wood wool to him, which is this thing that they use to sleep in and build nests out of, and females would put the wood wool behind his back.
So we were very excited when we captured our first pair of orangutan nests on camera.
And this is it; this is the first ever picture of orangutan nests taken with a drone.
Since then we have taken pictures of dozens of these nests from around various parts of Southeast Asia, and we're now working with computer scientists to develop algorithms that can automatically count the number of nests from the thousands of photos we've collected so far.
But nests are not the only objects these drones can detect.
We've also taken pictures of other animals including forest buffalos in Gabon, elephants, and even turtle nests.
In many species, all the winged males and winged virgin queens from all the nearby colonies in the population each leave from their different nests and meet at a central place to mate, using pheromones to guide each other to a breeding ground.
You hear it going from one side of the valley to the other, from one group of nests to the next.
The real pros in housebuilding are a group of birds we call the weaverbirds, and this name they were given because of the way in which they weave their nests.
He saw nests in the canopy at one of our Canopy Confluences in the Pacific Northwest, and created this beautiful sculpture.
Workers from nests up to several meters away begin to steal offspring from our queen.
And those bees would fly out of their natural nests and sting the elephants.
Who do you think was making needles and making nests and dripping on rocks for you, mister dense?" (Laughter) "Looking for the Buddha in person," he said.
So, starting in the mid-'70s when conservation was at the fore, we were actually able to start projects which were basically government supported to collect eggs from the wild from the few remaining nests and release 5,000 baby gharial back to the wild.
Their nests hatching along the riverside producing hundreds of hatchlings.
They brood in a town 150 miles away, where the soil conditions are better for building nests.
They start out as small, microscopic nests of cells, that can only grow to one half a cubic millimeter in size.
But the population is declining and it's declined fairly substantially, about 21 percent since 1987, when I started these surveys, in terms of number of active nests.
This past year, in 2009, you can see that they're now raising about a fourth of a chick, and some of these individuals are going more than 900 kilometers away from their nests.
Bostrom begins Superintelligence with a fable about sparrows who think it would be great to train an owl to help them build their nests and care for their young.
Abandoned houses and farm buildings offered ready-made nests and dens.
Some observers will view the 2018 World Cup in terms of Putin’s effort to project “soft power,” and as an occasion for corrupt Russian officials to feather their nests.
We get our monetary and fiscal policies right the same way that birds build their nests right.
Instead of the classic images of the US Cavalry courageously sweeping down on the savages, or of decent American doughboys bravely clearing out nests of Nazis, bored technocrats, insulated by immense layers of technology, firebomb green valleys, slaughtering enemy warriors and defenseless women and babies while sipping coffee and casually fiddling with touch screens.
In the eyes of disenchanted workers, those in power have simply been feathering their own nests.
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