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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 22, 2012 at 8:14pm

Thanks Ashley. I've never heard of Rolland.

Comment by Ashley Bryant on May 22, 2012 at 1:32am

One of my favorite quotes:
"To the man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the suffering of animals than in the suffering of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime." -Romain Rolland

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 18, 2012 at 9:26pm

BirdNote® Why Birds’ Feet Don’t Freeze

Birds have adapted to cold weather to keep their legs and feet toasty, even during the coldest of winters. Michael Stein reports how it works.

Listen to the podcast.

Comment by T A A on December 14, 2011 at 7:23am

Be patient... the build-up is lengthy, but the pay-off is worth it.

DVD liner notes (read Q&A here):
Scientific discovery of Brad Seibel, Steven Haddock, and Bruce Robison Edited by Encyclopedia Pictura Music: “I’ll Read You a Story,” by Colleen, courtesy of the Leaf Label Ltd. BRAD SEIBEL: In 1995, I captured a squid in a trawl net from 1700 meters depth that I could not identify. Many of the characters used to identify squids are located on the two longer feeding tentacles. This squid had only the eight arms and no feeding tentacles. In the same trawl bucket was an egg mass that also could not be identified. The eggs had not developed sufficiently to tell even what phyla they belonged to. They were not like other squid eggs I had seen. I preserved the squid and eggs in separate jars and forgot about them for about a year. In 1996, I caught a second squid from about 1400 meters depth. In the same trawl bucket were about 2000 hatchling squids. At that point I remembered the first capture and inferred that the squid must be brooding its eggs. I did some moredetailed dissections of the adult female squids and determined they were in the family Gonatidae but couldn’t identify species. I recruited the help of a molecular biologists who compared gene sequences and determined they were Gonatus onyx. I published that in Marine Biology in 2000. As juveniles, Gonatus onyx are abundant in shallow water, but the mature females and eggs had never been seen. I figured there must be a lot of them brooding eggs in the deep sea but I had relatively few opportunities to drag nets or use submersibles. In 2001, I started a fellowship with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. On my first expedition with MBARI and their submersible, Ventana, the chief scientist (coauthor Bruce Robison) asked what species I was interested in finding and at what depths we’d find them. I said I wanted to look for Gonatus onyx brooding squids below about 1400 meters. Robison and others thought I was a bit crazy. But on the first dive, at 2500 meters depth we came across a squid carrying an egg mass. As we pursued the squid the eggs started hatching. We observed several others over the next three years and have seen five with the sub to date.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on December 1, 2011 at 9:50am

Researches find poop-throwing by chimps is a sign of intelligence

 

A lot of people who have gone to the zoo have become the targets of feces thrown by apes or monkeys, and left no doubt wondering about the so-called intellectual capacity of a beast that would resort to such foul play. Now however, researchers studying such behavior have come to the conclusion that throwing feces, or any object really, is actually a sign of high ordered behavior. Bill Hopkins of Emory University and his colleagues have been studying the whole process behind throwing and the impact it has on brain development, and have published their results in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. [continue]

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on November 3, 2011 at 9:44am

Animals that can Think: A photo slideshow at Time.com.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on October 13, 2011 at 6:54pm

Animal Eye Closeups

 

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on September 28, 2011 at 2:55pm

Cliffhanger! Lion cub saved by mum in dramatic scenes caught on camera as he cries out pitifully for help

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on June 18, 2011 at 8:32pm

Best. Pun. Ever.

 

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 25, 2011 at 10:37am

Underwater World Captured in Stunning Photos: Slide Show

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