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Killing you with poison, not sepsis  permlink

Category: Evolution

Ed Yong has an excellent review of new research which casts substantial doubt on the trivia chestnut that Komodo dragons kill their prey with their extremely pathogen rich saliva. The more prosaic answer seems to be that they utilize poison,...

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Genetic closeness != behavioral closeness  permlink

Category: Ecology

Sheril's post, Chimpanzees Are NOT Pets!, is good. She notes: 1 Chimpanzees are wild animals. Animals that make good PETS like dogs and cats, have been domesticated for [thousands] of years. There has been selection on them against aggression, which...

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Diamonds, the Younger Dryas & extinctions  permlink

Category: Ecology

Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer: We report abundant nanodiamonds in sediments dating to 12.9 ± 0.1 thousand calendar years before the present at multiple locations across North America. Selected area electron diffraction patterns reveal two diamond allotropes...

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Not a new "species" of Great Ape after all  permlink

Category: Ecology

A few years ago there were reports of a new great ape in the Congo, perhaps a chimp-gorilla hybrid. As the story unfolded it seemed more and more plausible that this was a local morph of the common chimpanzee, and...

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You germy fat pig....  permlink

Category: Ecology

Interesting article in The Boston Globe which profiles researchers who suggest that variation in gut flora (the mix of bacteria) might be the cause of differences in body weight. Interesting fact: there are an order of magnitude more bacteria in...

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City slickers  permlink

Category: Ecology

Wired has an article up about urban coyotes: ...coyotes are thriving in city suburbs like Itasca and Palatine Village, and have even been spotted in the heart of Chicago's metropolitan area. They've also been sighted in other major urban areas,...

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