Have you half hours that you know would be best spent in company lower than that with which you pretend to be accustomed? Consider, then, spending some of those half hours with lower animals. This book tells one man’s own such story: Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells, Insects, and Crustaceans, […]
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How to begin a scientific paper: “Gears are found rarely in animals…”
This research paper, published in the journal Science, demonstrates that yes, it is possible to begin a scientific paper with a colorful thought. The very first sentence begins with these words: “Gears are found rarely in animals…”
Echocardiography – the wild side
Performing echocardiography (ultrasound examination of the heart) is now so widespread that it might be called a routine procedure. But using the diagnostic technique is not always straightforward. What happens, for example, it the patient has feathers? Or a perhaps even a shell? Guidance for echocardiographing animals is at hand from Yolanda Martinez Pereira, LdaVt […]
Charismatic Krill?
Are krill charismatic, in human eyes? Should they be? What bodes this? Those questions are addressed in the study: “Charismatic Krill? Size and Conservation in the Ocean,” Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol, Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of The Interactions of People & Animals, Volume 24, Number 2, June 2011 , pp. 135-146(12). The authors explain: […]