Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Looking for stuff about birds?
Learn more about Charles Darwin and his work.
Lean more about lions
An archaeological expedition to the Congo
The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.
Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.
Category: Books
Wildlife of Southern Africa , by Martin Withers and David Hosking, is new (August 2011) and good. If you are planning a trip to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana or anywhere nearby, or if you live there and like to go to the bush sometimes, consider...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:07 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cosmos
I remember my first solar eclipse. I was a kid, and it was the one Carlie Simon sang about, in March 1970. (The eclipse reference is just past three minutes. Some other time we can argue over whether or not Carlie, singing in this video...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:25 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: lost congo memoir
Thirty years ago yesterday, "the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMR) published a report of five young men with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia who were treated at three different hospitals in Los Angeles, California." (see This Blog Post for details). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly is...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:30 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Animals eathing people
...suddenly the troop of wild baboons .... wild angry baboons ... swoops in from all sides, jumping on the humans and pushing them back down the cliff...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:14 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Migration
When wildebeest, such as those famous for crossing the Mara River in Tanzania during their annual migration, run into a crocodile or some other danger it is often the first time they've seen that particular thing. This is because most wildebeest don't live very long...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:43 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Africa
The son of Libyan leader Gadhafi/kadafi claims that the "government" (which is not really true but its complicated) will fight to the last bullet against people engaged there in an uprising. Even as Seif al-Islam Gadhafi spoke Sunday night, clashes were raging in and around...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Africa
Once you've killed the monkey, you need to carry it back to camp. Slit the tail, near the end, and poke the head through the slit, so the tail makes a handy strap. Here's a detail:...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:29 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Efe Ethnoarchaeology
An Efe (Pygmy) man making poison arrows for use in killing monkeys. Ituri Forest, Zaire. Photograph Copyrighted 1986 Greg Laden...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:50 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Archaeology
Tutankhamen's stuff is soon to head home forever.
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:19 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Elephants
Brand new research supports a trend in earlier research: The African forest elephants are a different species from the African bush elephants.
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:00 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
casaubon's book 02.13.2012
denialism blog 02.13.2012
respectful insolence 02.13.2012
evolutionblog 02.12.2012
starts with a bang! 02.11.2012
