Friday, March 18, 2011

Great Tits Also Have Age-Related Defects


I ran across this interesting article about the aging characteristics of a specific species of birds. I thought that you all would be interested.

Great Tits Also Have Age-Related Defects

ScienceDaily (2011-03-09) -- The offspring of older great tit females are much less successful than those of younger mothers. Things mainly go wrong in the later stages of the upbringing, concludes an evolutionary biologist. For great tit females, it turns out to be a good idea to invest in generating offspring in the first years of life.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307130215.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)&utm_content=Google+Reader#

Pictured: The Great Tit

24 comments:

  1. Haha, nice innuendo there ;)

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  2. Haha love it! Agree with TreeBranchez... Great innuendo! :D

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  3. HAHA! Had me fooled. Pretty bird.

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  4. LOL I was like what!? But I saw it was about birds haha

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  5. I love tits :P not thrush tho :P

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  6. What? Ohhhhh...... I see what you did there.

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  7. Wait, what did just happened here? Lol

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  8. he i Like tits also, i also am a fan of birds.

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  9. Damn man! I was excited to see the photo!

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  10. Woah, you just catched me there, my computer freezed and the only thing I could see was the tittle and not much more, so I was pretty shocked...

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  11. haha i see what you did there

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  12. I love tits. They're so soft and fluffy... With their feathers I mean.

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  13. Haha, me and my girlfriend, we laughed a lot!

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  14. LOL. Didn't know that a tit was a type of bird. :P

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  15. Not what I thought it was gonna be about before i scrolled down!

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  16. this isnt the great tits ive been looking for D:

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  17. I dont think I felt so dissapointed in the past 3 years.

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  18. i like my woman titties fried.

    i mean..

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  19. well played sir, well played, you got me real good with the tittle haha

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  20. i did not know that. you got me with the title here :(((

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