I do not like football. That is no secret among those that know me. So whenever the most important game comes around, I usually sit it out quietly with a good book. Before the days of instant knowledge and the internet I would occasionally sit through part of a game just to see how well the beer commercials were getting along. Now, thanks to youtube and other related internet phenomena, I no longer have to do that.
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Stripes aren’t all bad or all stripes aren’t bad
Last post we looked into two prominent species that have went extinct after the introduction of Europeans to their habitat. Both animals displayed a striped pattern on one end of their body or the other. If that was a singular example, one wonders why stripes do not indicate points on the dart board. However, there is one animal that is not totally striped (as for now the zebra seems safe, although Tigers are having a rough go) that seems to be rather stable. In fact, it is not as rare as you may think: The Okapi.
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The Tiger’s Pouch and Equid DNA: the Danger of Wearing Stripes.
There is no survivor, there is no future, there is no life to be recreated in this form again. We are looking upon the uttermost finality which can be written, glimpsing the darkness which will not know another ray of light. We are in touch with the reality of extinction.
— Henry B. Hough, Domesday Book
Pigeons and Goldfish or Taxonomic Rebate
Last Thursday BBC news, and other sources I am sure, reported on a scientific finding about pigeons and their sense of smell. Pigeons sniff their way home reveals a study on how pigeons use scent to navigate. The study also involved stopping up one pigeon nostril. Sources do not reveal if this was done with small corks or if some graduate assistant had the arduous task of rolling up toilet paper to stick in the bird’s nose.
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| Sir David Attenborough recording a chorus of frogs in 1954. Photo courtesy of wildfilmhistory.org, a fantastic site |
Given that we are all living in the 21st century together and through the good advice of trusted associates of mine I have started a blog. I shall retro-act a New Year’s resolution of creating one and then cross it from my list. I am not at all entirely sure what this will always consist of or where it will go in the future. My guess is that it will just provide more filler for me to work on instead of actually doing work for my classes.
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