Australia's monogamous Zebra finches may not be as different from humans after all.
Like a stereotypical husband who pretends not to hear his wife berating
him, some male songbirds show no signs of recognizing the call of their
long-term mate in laboratory settings. But recent work with these
animals finds that they can, in fact, differentiate their mate's voice
but will react to it only in certain social situations.
The
male finch normally appeared deaf to the song of his girlfriend. When
placed with another couple of finches, however, the males were
responding to their faraway partner's song. "You can hear that chick?
Heh.
She's mine, you know."
Michael Syravong of Washington State is deeply disappointed that US transport officials have cancelled the personilized number plates
he's had for two years. Women had been voicing their complaints about
number plates saying GOTMILF, a pun on the "got milk"advertising. The
transport officials were originally ignorant of the meaning.
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Pentagon finds Bush's military records after all. Earlier statements that these records had been destroyed, was false.
"Previous attempts to locate the missing
records at the Federal Records Center had been unsuccessful due to the
incorrect records accession numbers provided," the Pentagon's Office of
Freedom of Information chief C.Y. Talbott said in a letter Friday to
The Associated Press.
"The correct numbers were obtained ... and the records were found."
Talbott wrote that the Defense Department
"regrets this inadvertent oversight during the initial search and the
delay it caused in your receipt of these materials."
