Not much room for Little Red Riding Hood, I’m afraid. Expansive surface area of a hippo’s stomach; but not a multi-chambered ruminant gut. Cervical air sacs of a Turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot. Heart and rather complex pulmonary system of a varanid lizard. It’s pharynx time: Keratin...
For dinosaurs, the Sedgwick Museum across the street (also free; also classic and awesome) is the place to go but this corner does a good job fighting for the scientific conclusion that birds are dinosaurs. And now a change of pace. On to the special exhibit! A nice surprise to see ...
MB: How does your book differ from others that are concerned with some of the same general topics? SS: I don’t think there’s any comparison at all. We intentionally decided not to cover all the biology that has been covered so well in other books. We wanted to share the spiritual a...
The origin and maintenance of social group structure is a topic of central concern in vertebrate biology [1–4]. Whereas one approach is to understand the processes that can account for sociality over an evolutionary scale [5–8], a proximal point of view aims to decipher the mechanisms by ...
Rest assured that if intelligent people need your input they will ask for it; that's one of the things intelligence does best; it seeks out exactly what it needs for itself. So if overcome by any sentiments of superiority, we must protect ourselves by firmly employing the core conditions...
The state of Ohio considers hippopotami, Komodo dragons, and howler monkeys, among other animals, dangerous. Snakes that are 12 feet or longer are also prohibited. Permits are required for certain situations, including exempted dangerous animals. ...
For dinosaurs, the Sedgwick Museum across the street (also free; also classic and awesome) is the place to go but this corner does a good job fighting for the scientific conclusion that birds are dinosaurs. And now a change of pace. On to the special exhibit! A nice surprise to see ...
As in the guan above, this animal was not walking for many weeks; its femur had snapped in two, but somehow melted back together. The tibiotarsus didn’t look too great, either; lumpy and bendy. In better times, the Chachalaca does the cha-cha like this. These two specimens blew my...
Zooming in on the “stay apparatus”; now in proximal view, with the biceps tendon on the left and the humeral head (showing some arthritic damage) on the right, with the groove for the biceps in between. Hippo’s humerus (upper left) and biceps muscle cut away proximally, displaying the...
For dinosaurs, the Sedgwick Museum across the street (also free; also classic and awesome) is the place to go but this corner does a good job fighting for the scientific conclusion that birds are dinosaurs. And now a change of pace. On to the special exhibit! A nice surprise to see ...