— “bleeding a female horseshoe crab may make it less likely to mate, even if it doesn’t kill it. pharmaceutical companies burst the cells that contain the chemical, called coagulogen” read article : the blood harvest
art ecology science & animals
By storm
HIS NAME IS “HOLIDAY”
— “it’s a friendship that wouldn’t happen in the wild, but cure some of the loneliness for an animal on the edge of extinction” read article : scientists hope frozen zoo will save endangered species
CANINE CONSERVATION
— “the job of a human in a tenth of the time” read article : dog squad
LISTENING TO MARY OLIVER
listen, onbeing.org : mary oliver
DADDY EATS ALL
— “the female gave birth, the male immediately ate all piglets, and then ate her rear end” read article : zoo worker claims litter of critically endangered visayan warty pigs were eaten
NEW TIGER TRIPLETS
read article: sumatran triplets born at chester zoo view video : 05/01/2015
SMALL PROPHESIERS
— “researchers at the university of california at berkeley think that infrasound, sound with a frequency too low to be detected by humans – was the early warning sign” read articles: birds predict tornadoes, golden-winged warblers hear tornadoes 250 miles away
ONCE COMMON
— “scientists behind the petition say the butterfly’s decline is linked to a rise in genetically engineered crops in the midwest” read article: monarch butterflies considered for endangered species status
BREAKING RECORDS
— “this has been a fantastic start to our whale-watching season. we are setting records. this is just the beginning,” salas said, as he steered his boat full of paid passengers back to long beach” read article: whales spotted off los angeles coast breaking records
HAPPY 2015 AND LOVEJOY
— “at the dawn of 2015, c/2014 q2 lovejoy is already glowing at magnitude +5 and lies in the constellation of lepus the hare, but conditions are set to improve rapidly as it heads north at a rate of about 2° per day” read article: get ready for comet lovejoy
ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY
gordon hempton — the last quiet places: silence and the presence of everything
EVOLUTION OF CONCEPTION
—”female control is subtle and cryptic compared to the boisterous displays of power and control put on by males” read article: the twisted world of sexual organs
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