Awe of Nature is a collection of magazines in the area of natural sciences, comprised mostly of original reporting of scientific literature and research activities. Of particular interest is the natural process of species adaptation, and people's efforts to help species adapt to dramatically changing environments These magazines are curated by San Francisco Bay Area science librarian Damian Hayden.
? - I thought this was already common knowedge, that only the genes associated with flight or fight (fear/bravery) were different between wolves and dogs in terms of behavior.
https://bigthink.com/life/dog-domestication-story-wrong/
Following an epic 20-year-long excavation in South Africa, researchers have finally recovered and cleaned the nearly complete skeleton of an ancient human relative: an approximately 3.67-million-year-old hominin Australopithecus prometheus, nicknamed Little Foot.
“According to the study, these firehawks— the back kite, whistling kite, and brown falcon— pick up smoldering grass and sticks from raging bushfires and transport them up to a kilometre away.
"The imputed intent of raptors is to spread fire to unburned locations – for example, the far side of a watercourse, road, or artificial break created by firefighters – to flush out prey via flames or smoke," the researchers explained.” http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2018/01/this-is-why-aussie-firehawk-raptors-are-spreading-bushfires
