Which ape is the most bipedal of all non-human primates? What kind of vertebrate are dolphins? How big are bonobos? How many types of chimpanzees are there? What are the types of animal behavior? What is a mammal? What genus is a mandrill?
What is an albino orangutan? What is the scientific name for the Bornean orangutan? What type of animal is a chimpanzee? What genus are the great apes? What region does the orangutan come from? What genus is a mandrill? What is a primate?
A primary consumer is defined by consuming producers (plants), secondary consumers consume primary consumers, and tertiary consumers consume secondary consumers. An apex predator is unique in that it consumes secondary or tertiary consumers (or both), but nothing consumes it (think of it as the to...
Giant deer in UCD zoology building foyer, with a lovely Pleistocene landscape painted on the wall behind it. Sika deer in an awkward posture (what is it supposed to be doing?) in Univ Coll Dublin zoology building’s foyer. The pose of this ?baboon?mandrill struck me as very peculiar and...
Good timing for a badly needed Mystery Dissection post: What are they (species ID) *AND* from what region of the body? (they are the same region, same specimen, same animal) RULE: Your answer must be in the form of a winter holiday song (at least four lines)! If you’ve been ...
A 1967 study--the only of its kind--found thatbullfrogs don't sleep. In the experiment, the animal's response to stimuli was the same during the waking and the "resting phase." Because it's the only study out there regarding sleeping habits (or lake thereof) of bullfrogs, scientists ...
What is a Japanese macaque? What is a tarsier? Is a mandrill a monkey? What is the weight of a spider monkey? Is a monkey a primate? What is the difference between a monkey and a gorilla? What genus is an orangutan in? What is the size of a howler monkey?
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And why it is there/what it does deserves much more study. Diprotodon hip. I just find this animal’s anatomy fascinating head-to-tail. Diprotodon front foot. Absolutely freakish. Diprotodon hind foot. Even weirder. Your view after having been trampled in a supine position by a Diprotodon....
mandrill struck me as very peculiar and menacing- reminiscent of a vampire bat’s pose. A whole lotta chicken skeletons in a UCD teaching lab. After the viva we went out for some nice Chinese food and passed some Dublin landmarks like this: Trinity College entrance, I think.Former Irish...