Footage of Narwhals
Category: Aminals
Head over to BBC News to see some cool and extremely rare footage of Narwhals during migration....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:23 PM • 0 Comments •
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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
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Smaller male chimps groom their way to the top
Category: Aminals
Smaller chimps may use grooming rather than aggression as a means to rise in their social hierarchy: The finding was gleaned from 10 years of observing dominant male chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, looking at behaviors they used...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:49 PM • 0 Comments •
The Rat That Would Not Die
Category: Aminals
Doing behavioral experiments with rats, I can totally understand how this may have happened. This abstract speaks for itself: A single Norway rat released on to a rat-free island was not caught for more than four months, despite intensive efforts...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:48 PM • 5 Comments •
Courting electric fish play the dueling banjos of love
Category: Aminals
Electric fish, Brienomyrus brachyistius, produce tiny electric signals from an organ in their tails that can be used to communicate and convey social status. They can also be used attract a mate, as reported in a study by Wong and...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:42 AM • 1 Comments •
Ants fill potholes without a work order
Category: Aminals
Research in army ants has shown that they will plug holes in the road using an interesting technique: Certain army ants in the rainforests of Central and South America conduct spectacular predatory raids containing up to 200,000 foraging ants. Remarkably,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:06 AM • 1 Comments •
Monkey Economics
Category: Aminals
The Freakonomics guys have a simply hysterical article in the New York Times magazine about monkey economics. The article discusses how monkeys possess the mental apparatus for economic valuation including the use of money. They train the monkeys to use...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:13 AM • 21 Comments •
What's happening to all the bees? Want to know, perform an experiment...
Category: Aminals
I don't know if you have been following this story, but there have been massive honey bee die-offs recently in the United States. Considering that honey bees are the primary pollinators for many of the crops grown here, this is...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:33 AM • 4 Comments •
"Sir, please try not to befriend the chimps."
Category: Aminals
Outcast chimp prefers humans to other chimps: We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees. New rules have been posted outside the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:41 AM • 1 Comments •
Chopper rescues man, accosts bird in tree
Category: Aminals
You know, waiting might have been just as effective: It took a Coast Guard helicopter to rescue a man and his pet cockatoo from the heights of a pine tree after he got stuck trying retrieve the $2,000 bird. William...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:35 AM • 1 Comments •
Panda Porn
Category: Sex
This is not just videos of hairy, fat people having sex. This is actual panda porn we are talking about: Chuang Chuang the panda has been spending his days in front of a big-screen television watching panda porn. Authorities at...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:20 AM • 4 Comments •
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