In 1551 the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner published his meisterwerk “Historia Animalium” ,[*1]. The book featured dozens of illustrations of curious animals – including the so-called Getulian dog (Canis getulus). Many of the other dogs which the book described and pictured (e.g. the Greyhound and the Spaniel) are still very much around nearly half a […]
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Monkey flossing
Monkey flossing became a formal practice, at least experimentally, in the late 1970s, thanks to a dentist named Jack Caton. Twenty years later, a physician, David C Sokal, inspired by the monkey flossing, patented a top/bottom flossing-reminder and floss-dispensing device for humans. Monkeys themselves apparently began unassistedly flossing not long afterwards. But in all probability […]
Rube Goldbergian species discovery
An intriguing headline and sub-headline in The Guardian: Snake spits out new species of chameleon at scientist’s feet Latest find in natural world was result of reptile coughing up lizard as conservationist studied monkeys in the jungle