The special Animal Oddities issue (vol. 17, no. 5) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about heads and lots about animals, and oddities, and animal oddities—and much more. The cover photos show four frogs having at it, and also three frogs engaged in similar activity. The pleasing-paper […]
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Animal sounds by humans (international)
The Bzzzpeek project collects sounds that people make to imitate various animals. They also collect imitations of vehicle sounds. They recently added Bulgarian imitators to the mix. (Thanks to investigator Jean Berko Gleason for bringing this to our attention.)
Making them (animals) walk the walk
Animator Sydney Padua, in her blog, draws some insights about how different animals walk [click through, to get to her blog, and see the images much larger, and so read the writing that accompanies each drawing]: Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation […]
Mouse Allergens and the Presence of a Cat
Nature’s game of cat and mouse continues, with a newly discovered twist: “Housing and Allergens: A Pooled Analysis of Nine U.S. Studies,” Jonathan Wilson, Sherry L. Dixon, Patrick Breyss David Jacobs, Gary Adamkiewicz, Ginger L. Chew, Dorr Dearborn, James Krieger, Megan Sandel, and Adam Spanie, Environmental Research, vol. 110, no. 2, February 2010, pp. 189–98. […]