Tag Archive | "Ecology"
Did Pandas Know The Earthquake Was Coming?
Image from avlxyz It’s been well-documented that animals are better than we are at picking up little changes in the surrounding world. Watch your dog lose his marbles 30 minutes before a thunderstorm arrives and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It only makes sense then, that [...]
Continue reading...Just How Smart is a Chimp?
Monday, May 12, 2008
Image from chiking Actually, chimps are smarter than both you or I. I understand that this is a little shocking–the evolutionary equivalent of your younger brother bringing home Adriana Lima for Christmas–so I’ll let you compose yourself, and explain just how the chimp got so smart [...]
Continue reading...Screwed: World’s Most Evil Worm Invades Yemen
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Screw Worm Larvae. Image by the US department of agriculture. Up until now the list of worms that has made men curse with fear has pretty much been limited to tape worms.
Continue reading...First Time In World History, Killer Whales Filmed Hunting Dolphins
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Image from The Herald. Let’s see how long until we get a cease-and-desist. A tour operator in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, unwittingly stumbled into the history books this weekend when he, his boat captain, and four tourists were in the right place at the right time to [...]
Continue reading...USA’s Secret Ivory Black Market Second Largest in the World
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Crisis of conscience may be closer than it appears. Image from exfordy
Continue reading...Are the Stripes on Bees a Little Prisoner’s Uniform?
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
He’s being a good citizen. Other ones, not so much. Image from aussiegail. Well, flatly, no, they’re not–but maybe they should be, according to Ellouise Leadbeater, a researcher at Queen Mary, University of London. The behavioral ecologist got her idea from one of Darwin’s journals, [...]
Continue reading...Farming Chickens in a Manhattan Basement
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
He lives in New York, so is better than you. Image from joyseph A 62-year old man is raising chickens in the basement of the Manhattan high-rise that he’s superintendent for, a posh building near the UN that has many condos starting at 1.8 Million US.
Continue reading...1,000 Pound “Colossal” Squid Thawed in NZ
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Calimari-sicles for 10,000, please. Image from Hideki Saito Scientists from New Zealand have begun the process of thawing and dissecting a squid corpse that they’ve kept in a freezer for the past year. It is huge, weighing in at half a ton.
Continue reading...Dead “King” Gator To Be On Display In Georgia
Monday, April 28, 2008
Image from Steve Beger Oscar the alligator, who died at around this time last year, isn’t quite done terrorizing the populace with his 14-foot frame just yet. Park rangers have determined that to honor the beast, they’re going to have him on display, in skeletal form, in a [...]
Continue reading...Balding Penguin Gets a Wetsuit
Friday, April 25, 2008
Like this, with neoprene. Image from Steven Crane Pierre, an African penguin at the California Academy of Sciences, was going bald, which posed a significant problem for the 25-year old bird. Penguins rely on their feathers to stay warm, not blubber.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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