Interesting Links for 18-11-2012

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• Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds | Collage of Arts and Sciences
  
  Scanning electron micrographs of seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank in the UK. Very Pretty!
  (tags: photography millennium seed bank scanning electron micrograph seeds )




• Streams show signs of degradation at earliest stages of urban development
  
  Urban streams show stress from development much sooner and more drastically than thought.
  (tags: urban restoration stormwater runoff streams )




• Fairy wrens teach secret passwords to their unborn chicks to tell them apart from cuckoo impostors | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
  
  Brooding fairy wrens sing a particular song while incubating their eggs. The hatched chicks pick up elements of this song, which works as an identifier to protect against brood parasitism by a cuckoo.
  (tags: wild life bird song fairy wren birds science parenting )

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