R.I.P. Hal. At least you had a good romp before the end.
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As one of those geezers in his grey, tired, wizened 50s, I'm torn between the cranky get-offa-my-lawn attitude and a patronizing bless-their-little-hearts when I see all these young'uns romping about at meetings nowadays.
Today's AVoteForScience video comes from Dr. Kirsten (Kiki) Sanford, the incredibly talented host of This Week in Science, my favorite science radio show.
Here we see the mighty hunter returning from a successful pursuit of the elusive Red Snow Squid.
Well, I cannot afford to go to Netroots Nation, I cannot fit NEW COMMUNICATION CHANNELS FOR BIOLOGY into my calendar, I do not have money for
It's called capture myopathy. Wild things are horrified by human handling, some more than others, and the little guy would have been cortisol-saturated from his initial capture and probable long-term isolation from a pack. Sometimes even the most sensitive handling and treatment is too much, and the animal dies. Happens in birds, too.
while coyotes are social animals, but they are not pack animals.
My bad, Grrlsci. Didn't do a biological profile check on coyote and should have, being more a bird-type person. Thanks for correction.
I suspect the coyote died as a result of being mugged.