The Department of Biosystems Engineering, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, has an ongoing scientific interest in lightly tapping quasi-spherical food items and observing the results. So far they have investigated : Pears, Peaches and Melons. And, surprisingly perhaps, the latest under the hammer are hens’ eggs. For it has been discovered that when exposed to […]
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Don’t blame the bear. Blame the gull.
There is news about polar bears, barnacle geese and their eggs. BBC News reports: An Arctic expedition has confirmed fears that polar bears are preying on the eggs of barnacle geese that migrate to the Solway Firth each winter. During a recent trip, scientists discovered evidence of bears eating thousands of eggs. The bears have […]
Cott: Go Suck (Tasty) Eggs
“Go and suck eggs” is the basic experimental method in a series of studies done by Hugh B Cott, of Cambridge University, in the early 1950s. The titles are pretty self-explanatory: The Palatability of the Eggs of Birds – Illustrated By Experiments on the Food Preferences of the Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus). The Palatability of the […]