By Annalee Newitz
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IT STARTED innocently enough, with a friend telling me about the Peregrine Nest Cam at the University of California, Berkeley. High in the campus clock tower, under a webcam’s watchful eye, some biology researchers had arranged a box of gravel for two peregrine falcons and their three floofy, awkward babies. I couldn’t stop watching. I’ve spent weeks following along as the chicks shed their down, fought for chunks of meat and screamed at the top of their lungs. Now, they are almost ready to fly and I feel a deep sense of accomplishment.
But why? I didn’t …
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