Tropical birds could tolerate warming (IMAGE)

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Tropical birds could tolerate warming

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Ornithologists Henry Pollock (left) and Jeff Brawn (right) tested the temperature tolerance of tropical birds across habitats within Neotropical forests, finding a greater range of tolerance than expected given prevailing theories.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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