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Now, around the time that this song was in heavy rotation, biologists were in deep discussion about whether bird species, notably songbirds and waterfowl were actually monogamous or not.
See, for decades, generations of science students were taught that well over 90 percent of the bird
species
were monogamous.
And we now recognize that it only holds true for about 14 percent of the songbird species, which we were very certain were truly monogamous.
We know that pleasure reinforces adaptive behaviors like eating and sex that help perpetuate our species, and it looked to me like giving might be one of those behaviors.
We stand a very big chance of losing our ability to inspire our youth to go out and continue this very important thing that we as a
species
have always done.
And they also found four
species
of bats in there.
Towards the end of his life, he asked quite a simple question: If we as a
species
were ever to come across another advanced life-form, an advanced civilization, how would we speak to them?
They come from an ancient line of mammals, and there were once dozens of
species
including the giant ground sloth, which was the size of a small elephant and one of the only animals big enough to eat avocado pits whole and disperse them.
Today, there are six surviving species, and they fall into two groups.
Researchers at Kansas University who were studying mollusks found that a high metabolism predicted which
species
of mollusk had gone extinct.
Its
species
name is Sequoia sempervirens.
The range of the
species
goes up to as much as 380 feet tall.
The largest individuals of this species, the dreadnoughts of their kind, live just on the north coast of California, where the rain is really intense.
The Redwood
species
seems to exist in another kind of time: not human time, but what we might call Redwood time.
Many
species
of mosses, and then all sorts of lichens just plastering the tree.
This is an unnamed
species
of copepod.
Chris Anderson: I think at a previous TED, I think it was Nathan Myhrvold who told me that it was thought that because these trees are like, 2,000 years and older, on many of them there are ecosystems where there are
species
that are not found anywhere on the Earth except on that one tree.
And while we were climbing Hyperion, Marie Antoine spotted an unknown
species
of golden-brown ant about halfway up the trunk.
Ants are not known to occur in Redwood trees, curiously enough, and we wondered whether this ant, this
species
of ant, was only endemic to that one tree, or possibly to that grove.
CA: So, you have to wonder when, you know, if some other
species
than us was recording the stories that mattered on Earth, you know, our stories are about Iraq and war and politics and celebrity gossip.
Why? It's our calling card as a
species
in the galaxy to figure things out.
There are dark forces in this world that will rob our entire
species
of our right to understand our universe.
I should also note the reason that it's so catastrophic and that our health deteriorates so quickly, first, it's because human beings are the only
species
that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent reason.
With some
species
diving to depths of nearly 400 meters, they’re able to cope with the mounting pressure by collapsing their pliable rib cage, and compressing a pair of springy lungs.
As climate change warms the oceans, certain toxic algae
species
thrive.
And there are actually more
species
of bees than there are mammals and birds combined.
We have identified over 400
species
of bees in Pennsylvania.
Thirty-two
species
have not been identified or found in the state since 1950.
They produce massive amounts of waste, polluting the surrounding areas and potentially spreading diseases to wild
species.
Escaped fish can even disrupt local ecosystems as invasive
species.
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