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For years, the main driver of evolutionary change in hummingbird bills was thought to be feeding ecology, but a recent study by UC Berkeley researchers, published in the journal “Integrative Organismal Biology,” proves otherwise. Some male hummingbirds in the tropics of South America favor bills more suited to fighting than feeding.
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The discovery that the university is monitoring UC Berkeley network traffic has sparked outrage among faculty members who see such undisclosed surveillance as a significant threat to privacy.
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Researchers studied a species of “sky-diving” spiders in South America that exhibits a unique controlled movement when they descend, a behavior that may have significant implications for the evolution of arachnid — and possibly other aerial animal — flight.
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The baby birds fluttered themselves upright as they fell onto a trampoline in a UC Berkeley laboratory — a behavior researchers say provides clues into the origin of birds’ flight.
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Researchers in UC Berkeley’s Animal Flight Laboratory have provided key insight into the hovering abilities of hummingbirds, discovering which conditions provoke hummingbird’s to reach their exceptional metabolism levels.
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A recent study by UC Berkeley biologists suggest that the electrostatically charged insects attract spider webs when they are close, making it easier to be snared by the web.
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About 50 people gathered outside of California Hall at noon Monday to protest criminal charges filed by the district attorney’s office against protesters active in the Nov. 9 protests. Protesters marched in a circle holding banners and chanting in unison, calling for the dissolution of the charges and hoping for
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The case of a UC Berkeley student who is suing a UCPD officer for allegedly violating her constitutional rights during a campus protest in 2009 began Monday in a federal court in San Francisco. Zhivka Valiavicharska — a graduate student in the rhetoric department — claims that UCPD officer Brendan
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