Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Raccoon Tales

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Sharyn McCrumb, author of BIMBOS OF THE DEATH SUN, ZOMBIES OF THE GENE POOL, and the Elizabeth McPherson mysteries, best known for her long-...
Thursday, January 09, 2025

Marvels of Evolution

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I'm reading a recently published work by famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, THE GENETIC BOOK OF THE DEAD. The title refers to...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Dog Buttons

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This isn't about fastenings for canine clothes. It's about electronic buttons dogs use to communicate: Talking Dog Buttons The a...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Animal Immortality

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Some animals with amazingly long lifespans compared to ours, including one that can survive potentially forever, the "immortal jellyfis...
Thursday, August 08, 2024

A Plant-Animal Hybrid?

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Here's a Wikipedia entry about the emerald green sea slug, a mollusc living in marshes, pools, and shallow creeks, which feeds on algae ...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

The Smartest Animals

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Here's yet another list of the supposedly most intelligent nonhuman animals, or at least a selection of them: 11 of the World's Sm...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Animal Facial Expressions

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A study at the University of Kansas Medical Center "discovered that cats use nearly 300 distinct facial expressions to communicate with...
Thursday, July 06, 2023

Should Animals Have Human Rights?

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I've recently reread Sharyn McCrumb's mystery novel IF I'D KILLED HIM WHEN I MET HIM, which includes a subplot about a woman who...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

Blood as a Youth Potion

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Could techniques that restore markers of youth to old mice have any effect on human subjects? Blood Transfusion Experiment in Mice Cellu...
Thursday, January 12, 2023

Quest for Longevity

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The cover story of the January 2023 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, a 35-page article titled "The Science of Living Longer and Better," explo...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

The Female of the Species

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I've just read a recent book called BITCH: ON THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES, by British zoologist and documentary filmmaker Lucy Cooke. It...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

How Many Brains Does a Creature Need?

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Leeches have 32 brains. Well, sort of. Each of its separate segments contains its own neuronal ganglion. As one answer on Quora puts it, ...
Thursday, July 07, 2022

Urban Wildlife

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The July 2022 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC includes an article titled "Why Cities Are Going Wild." It's about wild animals who...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Communicating with Pets

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Netflix has a new series called THE HIDDEN LIVES OF PETS. Although it sounds as if it should reveal what our pets do when we're not watc...
Thursday, June 16, 2022

The Most Intelligent Animals

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Well, maybe not THE most in absolute terms, but this page lists six of the top candidates: 6 of the World's Most Intelligent Animals ...
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Thursday, March 03, 2022

Ranking Dangers

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The March-April issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article titled "The World's Most Deadly Animal," by Harriet Hall. The ...
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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Games Cyborg Brains Play

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Researchers at Cortical Labs have designed "cyborg brains," composed of living human brain cells atop a microelectrode array in a ...
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Canine Conversations

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A speech language pathologist, Christina Hunger, claims to have taught her dog, Stella, to "talk": Can That Dog on Instagram Rea...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

Whale Culture

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Do animals have culture, defined as the customs of a particular social group? Not too long ago, established science would have answered with...
Thursday, May 06, 2021

Me Tarzan, You Jane

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Recently I've watched several Tarzan movies, including two of the classic Johnny Weissmuller films. It's always annoyed me that this...