Humans who study animals sometimes quarrel about exactly what they are seeing. The ape Mafuka was the subject of one such quarrel: “Watching Exotic Animals Next Door: ‘Scientific’ Observations at the Zoo (ca. 1870–1910),” Oliver Hochadel, Science in Context, vol. 24, no. 2, 2011, pp. 183–214. The author, at Institucio Mila i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona, […]
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Is this what happens when you see the gorilla?
Unintentionally harking back to the Ig Nobel Prize-winning “Did You See the Gorilla” experiment, a Seattle PI news report says: Costumed Zoo Employee Taken Down by Veterinarian with a Tranquilizer Dart – the Vet Mistook Him for a Real Gorilla Loro Parque, an amusement park located on a Spanish island off the coast of Africa where […]
His cool appraisal of cold-showers-and-loneliness research
Dan Simons, psychology professor and Ig Nobel Prize winner (together with Chris Chabris, for the invisible-gorilla study) casts a cool, appraising eye on a cold-shower-and-loneliness study, and looks at the way other investigators have looked at that study. Simons writes, on his blog: Replication, Retraction, and Responsibility Congrats/thanks to Brent Donnellan, Joe Cesario, and Rich […]
Semen Collection and Evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla
A study of particular interest to scholars of semen collection and evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla: “Semen Collection and Evaluation in Gorilla gorilla gorilla,” S.W.J. Seager, D.E. Wildt, N. Schaffer, and C.C. Platz, American Journal of Primatology, vol. 3, supp. 1, 1982, p. 13. [AIR 16:2]