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Am I the only one wondering what the National Institutes of Health has to do with ornithological research? Isn't this a little outside their mandated field?
by mikro2nd 6y ago
Am I the only one wondering what the National Institutes of Health has to do with ornithological research? Isn't this a little outside their mandated field?
- anamexis 6y agoThe NIH did not run this study. The submitted link is just the article (from the Nature Community journal) being hosted by the NIH's library. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/
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- hprotagonist 6y agoThis work was done with a combination of funding from the US national science foundation and Japan's JSPS (see acknowledgements) and doesn't involve the NIH directly. PubMed/PMC are hosted there, though. That said, animal models are extremely common for NIH-funded work, and birds feature prominently in studies of language and auditory processing.
- cma 6y agoI don't know the details of this study, but aside from that this might prove relevant to humans, NIH also do veterinary research: https://www.ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dvr/Pages/default.aspx https://www.ors.od.nih.gov/sr/dvr/Pages/default.aspx