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Like canaries in a coalmine, birds can help us predict and mitigate future risks to brain health.
Like canaries in a coalmine, birds can help us predict and mitigate future risks to brain health.
Birds are a natural model for translational neuroscience and climate resilience.
Birds are a natural model for translational neuroscience and climate resilience.
Diurnal like us
Unlike most lab rodents, birds are active during the day, when it is hottest, aligning with human phsiology and daily rthyms.
Shared brain architecture
Birds and humans share a social brain network that regulates bonding, parenting, and mood -- foundational insights into this come from birds.
Shared heat responses
Both groups rely on similar strategies -- convection, evaporative cooling, antioxidants -- to mitigate heat.
Nature's laboratory
Cavity-nesting birds offer rare access to every stage of development in a standardized, minimally disruptive setup in the field.
Evolutionary survivors
Birds withstood >100 million years of past climate change. They will show us how Nature solved the problem of heat in the past, across many independent replicates, offering insight into resilience across deep time.
Perinatal origins of health & disease
Birds & humans have helpless young who cannot escape heat by themselves. Early life experiences set cognitive trajectories for life.
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