1046: Picking up around the house by Mother Nature. 2016. @NatalieAngier, NYT.
Photo: No known restrictions on publication. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow Picking up around the house by Mother Nature. 2016. @NatalieAngier, NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/science/natures-waste-management-crews.html?_r=0 "...Researchers already knew that flickers, like many woodpeckers, are a so-called sex role reversed species, the fathers spending comparatively more time incubating the eggs and feeding the young than do the mothers. Now scientists have found that the males’ parental zeal also extends to the less sentimental realm of nest hygiene: When a chick makes waste, Dad, more readily than Mom, is the one who makes haste, plucking up the unwanted presentation and disposing of it far from home....'