#5 Reasons To Celebrate Colobus Daythe colobi are a group of Old world monkeys (meaning from Africa
They are better than Christopher Columbus for the following reasons. 1. Amazing Jumpersthe various species of colobus monkey--there are about five distinct species some with subspecies--are probably the most arboreal of all African monkeys.
It's not uncommon to see colobus monkeys leaping 20 feet from tree to tree. These aren't big monkeys;
that's the equivalent of a weak bad-jumping human leaping about 50 feet from a standstill.
me that he was not as good a jumper as a colobus monkey. 2. Great Tailscolobus monkeys have very long tails with delightful poofs at the end of them.
The best-known colobus monkey the mantled guereza (also called the Abyssinian black-and-white colobus) has an enormous poof sometimes taking up most of the length of the tail like a big white bottlebrush.
The mantled guereza uses the tail we think for balance as it jumps back and forth amongst the trees.
Christopher Columbus was tailless like the rest of his species 3. Super Stylishcolobus monkeys have cool beards;
the mantled guereza has dignified a and well-trimmed white beard that contrasts beautifully with its black undercoat bright white tail and long white western-inspired fringes.
The western red colobus has great bushy mutton-chops and a calico-patterned coat of bright rust white and black.
Christopher Columbus on the other hand wears unflatteringly baggy pilgrim-nun clothes and has no beard. 4. Sustainable Dietscolobus monkeys are almost exclusively leaf-eaters filling an important niche in the tops of the African forest.
Most dense forests have lots of leaves and fruits that are poisonous or indigestible to most animals;
The colobus monkeys eat this abundant food and are able to digest it thanks to gut bacteria that ferments and breaks down the plant product.
This is unusual for a primate; gut bacteria of this sort is associated more often with ruminants like cows.
But there are no cows in the upper rainforest! And colobi are seed important dispersal vectors in their habitat.
or overcompetition for resources. 5. Overcoming Adversitycolobus monkeys have very small stumps instead of thumbs unique among primates.
The evolutionary theory is that the thumb was irrelevant to the semi-brachiation mode of transport (swinging through trees) that the colobus uses;
if you look at the king of brachiation the gibbon you can see that its thumb is very far from its fingers and its mostly irrelevant for moving around.
The colobus uses its fingers like a hook to grab onto and swing from branches.
Not good enough Chris. You have been bested by a monkey a
#The latest outbreak of measles in the U s a preventable disease that the Western hemisphere eradicated decades ago thanks to vaccines has been traced to a megachurch in Texas. The church's senior pastor Terri Pearsons had criticized previously vaccines USA Today reports.
In 165-Million-Year-Old Fossil Evidence That Fur Predates Mammals By Shaunacy Ferro Posted on 8. 13.2013 4 Comments 8. 13.2013 at 05:
Old dogs can learn new tricks. Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible.
although one study done in mice hints that it's got something to do with changes to the animals'gut microbes.
#The World's Fastest Dog Vs. The World's Fastest Cat Video The cheetah the world's fastest land animal can race up to 75 mph for short bursts.
The greyhound is the fastest canid and the second-fastest land animal with a peak speed of about 43 mph.
Cool facts! Now let's watch them run in super slow motion. Note that while cheetahs and greyhounds are very very different animals they've independently evolved to have very similar running styles.
Both animals use what's called a rotary gallop in which the leg hitting the ground moves in a circle:
front left leg then front right then hind right then hind left. This is the natural running style of dogs cats and some ungulates like deer and elk but different than that of horses
(which are built for endurance rather than sprinting speed). They also have a similar two-phase gait:
while cheetahs and greyhounds are very very different animals they've independently evolved...to clarify...
are greyhounds a naturally selected evolved species or are bred they selectively breed of dog? I thought the second fastest land animal was the pronghorn antelopethe pronghorn is the second fastest land animal
and the African wild dog is the fastest canid. Unless you are referring to rate of acceleration...To be pedantic its not even the 3rd fastest land animal.
After the Pronghorn antelope the Blue Wildebeest Lion Springbok Grant's Gazelle Tohomson's Gazelle and even the Quarter horse have all been clocked faster than 43 mph...
I am under the impression that the Saluki is actually as fast or faster than a Greyhound.
A Greyhound is a sprinter-good for short distances. A Saluki is used to hunt Gazelle and is good for distance.
I believe they are the most ancient dog breed and not manmade-as is the Greyhound.
They also have a spine like a Cheetah. It would be MOST interesting to time a Saluki for distance
and running style compared to a Cheetah. I think the results would be much more impressive.
Would anyone be up to prove a point and see if this is true or not? Just curious!
I can tell you the dog looks a lot scarier when he's chasing you. The dog appears much better armed
when it actually gets there. I didn't get to hear the audio but did they address why the greyhound bobs his head?
Almost looks like he's swinging it like a weight to propel himself faster. The cheetah doesn't do that.
The Greyhound is the fastest sprinter but the Saluki wins over a longer course. Afghans Salukis and Borzois were used to hunt tigers.
They hunted as male female pairs. The female moved in and as the tiger lunged exposing its jugular the male attacked d
#Scan Reveals If Your Civet Poo Coffee Really Comes From Civet Poo When you pay $150 to $230 for a pound of exotic coffee you want to know it's the real deal.
Now a team of chemists say they've developed a way to verify that beans labeled as civet coffee are authentic.
What is civet coffee and what makes it so expensive? Normally coffee farmers and processors pick the berries from their coffee trees remove the fruits'flesh from their seeds ferment the seeds
and then wash dry and roast the seeds. For civet coffee a cute Southeast Asian forest creature called the Asian palm civet helps out with some of these steps.
Civets selectively eat the best ripe coffee berries and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans.
The civets then excrete the beans which civet coffee farmers gather wash ferment and roast.
Regular little Santa's helpers civets are! So. Civet coffee also known by its Indonesian name Kopi Luwak needs to be gathered by hand from civet poop making it rare
and labor-intensive to produce. That explains its priceã¢Â# as well as some coffee sellers'inclination to try to market non-civet-processed coffee as Kopi Luwak
or to cut true Kopi Luwak with regular coffee. Those scams inspired a team of Japanese
and Indonesian researchers to come up with a way to chemically distinguish regular coffee from civet coffee.
The researchers analyzed Kopi Luwak that they produced (presumably with civets in lab) as well as commercially sold Kopi Luwak and commercially sold regular coffee beans from different regions in Indonesia.
They used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry both techniques that tell chemists what molecules appear in a sample to conduct a metabolomic analysis of the coffees.
They found that digested coffee beans had significantly different levels of certain acids than non-digested beans.
Perhaps the gastric juices and the microbes in the civet digestive system give beans a distinctive acid profile the researchers wrote in a paper they published in July in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
The detectable differences were great enough that they could distinguish a 50-50 mix of Kopi Luwak and regular coffee from 100 percent Kopi Luwak the researchers report.
This is the first time anyone has been able to determine what chemicals to look for when distinguishing Kopi Luwak from regular coffee the researchers wrote.
Their technique could work alone or in conjunction with the imperfect methods with which experts identify Kopi Luwak now by its color and smell.
Oh thank you thank you thank you Popsci on explaining exactly what is civet coffee is so I will never buy it in the future!!!
Starz-You were already buying it at over $150 a pound!?!No coffee is worth that price no matter how tasty
-even if you were using pure feral cat cream which is awesome. What to know how awesome?
Go milk some feral cats (the more feral the better) to learn from experience that delight that can be learned
and found in no other way. Oakspar77777 I like coffee and often try knew coffees.
I never bought this in the past and with this new information have no intention either. More importantly have milked you a feral cat yet?
Once you do post picture of the bliss that follows aquiring such a delightful cream u
Research suggests that traditionally the Inuit ate any number of meats including seal whale caribou and fish.
For greens Kuhnlein adds traditional Inuit ate the stomach contents of caribou and deer. Historically they were quite healthy she says;
That is why lions (and every other carnivore on the planet) do just fine. You are what you eat and
hence why we don't have all molars like horses do or all incisors like dogs.
Perhaps you should cruise on back over to Fox Nation? My fathers neighbor died from the Atkins diet.
while the backyard trash pile behind a Flordia trailerpark is reabsorbed almost yearly (though decomp rust and racoon).(
They're just a cabal making fat-cat bucks looking to protect their income of major dough.
and the oil industry uses readings from the field to guide drills. In nature animals which use the field could be confused mightily-birds bees
When it infects a rat its makes its host abnormally unafraid of cat urine upping the rodent's chances of getting eaten by a cat
On the bright side for pet lovers cat ownership doesn't seem to be a predictor of infection.
Infection stems from the bite of deer and mango flies that live in rainforests and swamps.
In the middle of the night my dogs were itching and scratching I couldn't find fleas
and breeder of expensive (show quality) Miniature schnauzers (my last sold for $1500. 00) I accidently itched my left tear duct with dog feces on finger!
2-1/2 days later I got the first migraine ever and was in the left eye!(
I also mixed some in peanut butter for the dogs daily dose<they love bite my fingers with it!
Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
Terrill uses a laser pointer to indicate the newest find. The hard edges provide bright scatter he says.
He then shifts his pointer to a spherical object about 45 meters away and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane.
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
so they're a good replacement for mammal or bird meat. They eat less food reduce our need for pesticides
#New Awesome Mammal In The Raccoon Family Found In South Americawe don't discover new mammals very often let alone new mammals in well-known families like Procyonidae (which includes the raccoons coatis and ringtails.
The olinguito as its name suggests is highly similar to another member of the raccoon family the olingo an arboreal nocturnal animal that looks more like a combination of a possum and a monkey than a raccoon.
Kristofer Helgen curator of mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history and author of the paper stumbled on some olinguito skins
This squirrel-sized dude evolved long before the rise of modern mammals but the hair and fur residue found preserved in its fossil indicate that those traits existed even back in the Jurassic era.
Hair and fur have generally been considered unique to mammals so it's exciting to find that they could have been around even before the first mammals arrived on the evolutionary scene.
This bolsters the 2006 finding of one other pre-mammalian fossil with fur the only other hairy ancestor we've discovered.
Megaconus probably ambled around with a gait similar to a modern rock hyrax or an armadillo and had teeth similar to modern rodents.
On its heels it had a long perhaps poisonous spur like male platypuses do now. Megaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin
and integument had evolved already before the rise of modern mammals says Zhe-Xi Luo one of the fossil's discoverers and a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.
Some of its other features though differentiate it from today's mammals. A middle ear still attached to the jaw is more reminiscent of reptiles
and the structures of its anklebones and vertebrae look very similar to other mammal-like reptiles.
We cannot say that Megaconus is our direct ancestor but it certainly looks like a great-great-grand uncle 165 million years removed Luo says.
UCHICAGO News...The aquatic-ape hypothesis suggests that six million to eight million years ago apelike ancestors of modern humans had a semiaquatic lifestyle based on foraging for food
and so the theory asserts that we evolved to lose our fur replacing it as other aquatic mammals have with relatively high levels of body fat.
The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
and Chemical Toxicology found that rats fed on a diet of 33 per cent NK603 corn
and digestive problems. www. english. rfi. fr/americas/20120920-monsanto-gm-maize-may-face-europe-ban-after-french-study-links-cancersincerely-Joewww. joesid. compoor rats...
The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.
It turns out that the Sprague-Dawley rats in the study have a lifespan of about 2 years
In other words SÃ Â ralini is accused of scientific malpractice for not including a high enough sample of rats in the study to control for naturally occurring tumors and cancers.
http://dotearth. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/10/19/six-french-science-academies-dismiss-study-finding-gm-corn-harmed-rats/?
After proposing the use of rats in long-term experiments it exposed that Monsanto and every other case study did not do a long-term study.
Because they all use rats. The very rat that is in question in SÃ Â ralini's work.
How can anyone claim that the food is safe if you only test it for 90 days?
The rats they used in the test are used in every lab experiment across the country. They are the most common lab rat in use today
It's because of this rat dilemma they have highlighted another study that used a different animal for 5 years.
and the case has been highlighted because of the use of rats. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat strain that SÃ Â ralini used is used also in long-term 2-year toxicity
If this was the wrong type of rat for SÃ Â ralini to use it was the wrong rat in all these other studies
GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
and sold in the world today affects the fertility of mice. The mice which were fed the GMO corn had significantly lower fertility rates than the mice fed natural non-GMO corn.
Disturbingly this declining ability to have continued babies down through future mouse generations as well. ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.
While the specific effects differed depending upon the variety of GMO corn that was eaten the dose that was consumed
and the sex of the mammal all three varieties of GMO corn caused damage to the animals major detoxifying organs namely the liver and the kidneys.
Other effects were also found in the heart adrenal glands spleen bone marrow lymph nodes and other blood-making organsã¢Â#Âll of which are signs of severe toxicity. 3. This past year Food Chemical Toxicology published the results of a two-year study conducted by scientists at the University of Caen
and female rats the death rates for the animals fed GMO corn was two to three times higher than the animals eating non-GMO corn.
The GMO-fed mice were also four times more likely to develop tumors. GMO-eating females developed more mammary tumors as well as pituitary gland and hormonal abnormalities.
While one study found that 0. 97 ppm of formaldehyde is toxic to mammals GMO corn was found to contain 200 times that amount. these comments...
To print the liver tissue at Organovo Vivian Gorgen a 25-year-old systems engineer simply had to click run program with a mouse.
Then they graduated to larger mammalian cells farmed from Chinese hamsters and lab rats. After printing 90 percent of the cells remained viable
There are some pretty significant species differences between animals like rats and humans says Organovo's Presnell.
So you can get a lovely answer from a rat that says'Yeah go forth!''And in reality in a human it would not do well.
At Stanford researchers have tried to get around this problem by breeding mice with livers made up mostly of human cells.
A study published in October showed the mice predicted how well a drug for treating hepatitis C would be metabolized by humans.
Save the seals choose invitro. Thats the name brand I'll choose Tasty Invitro Meats or TIM'sbeef chicken or Exotic:
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
Thanks to good old Barry Bonds who used maple bats in his 2001 marathon home-run season players increasingly favor the lighter wood which according to one collector just has more pop than other bat
The scientists found that the more the cut of the wood strayed from the original grain the more likely the bat was to shatter The New york times reports.
The baseball league altered regulations to require that the grain in the bat not deviate from the original grain of the wood by more than 3 percent as well as adding minimum densities and weight-to-length ratios.
when they are hit by these bats. why not just laminate the bat? kinda like a car window or bullet proof glass glazing?
Seems to me many shards are likely coming from the inside core of the bat (judging by the picture.
What laminating materials could be used that would not significantly improve the desirable characteristics of an ordinary wood bat?
the bat might just look shiny due to a glossy effect of the resin. Polyurethane could also work. thats the stuff bedliners are made out of...
although the bat might look plasticized after. too thick of a coating may have an affect on the bat.
#Grizzly bear Survival: Yet Another Reason Not To Shoot Yellowstone Wolveseven though every respectable regulatory service says shooting wolves in
and around Yellowstone national park is bad for everyone involved wolves are still being shot. Well add one more paper to the pile:
a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology finds that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone has had a positive effect on the population of...
wait what? Grizzly bears? How? Putting together the puzzle pieces of a diverse ecosystem like Yellowstone is tricky;
shooting wolves is like pulling out a piece of an enormous Jenga game. Some parts seem unaffected some parts are balanced distinctly less
and eventually the whole game will crash. This study looks at how the wolf affects the ecosystem as a whole
and as we thought wolves are an essential part of the health of Yellowstone. The iconic endangered-in-the-U s. grizzly bear relies on lots of fruit especially berries
when preparing for its winter hibernation. High in sugar and containing lots of important vitamins the berries including serviceberry chokecherry buffaloberry twinberry huckleberry
and others and make up a substantial portion of the grizzly's diet in the summertime.
A lower amount of berries has been found to have a negative effect on the survival and reproductive abilities of grizzlies the following year.
There have been quite a few low-berry years lately. That problem says the study can be attributed to the lack of wolves in Yellowstone:
wolves typically prey on the abundant elk herds in the park. Elk eat berries just like the bears do.
But without wolves the elk population has exploded which means there's hardly any berries left for the bears.
So the bears aren't as well fed which makes them less healthy. And it's not even just as simple as that.
The elk are eating so many berries including the entire berry shrubs that animals that rely on the shrubs like bees
and butterflies are also in decline. The bears without access to the fruit they'd normally be eating have to eat more meat
which means they sometimes prey on elk but just as often on livestock nearby. And that makes the ranchers angry
and the ranchers shoot bears or wolves or whatever else they feel like because Wyoming does not know
or care how ecosystems work. Neither does Friends of the Yellowstone Elk Herd a pro-hunting organization.
But the reintroduction of wolves the study finds has had marked a improvement on that entire system. The researchers from Oregon State university and Washington state University analyzed grizzly bear scat and found that the percentage of berries in the scat has doubled since the reintroduction of the wolves.
Turns out the two most iconic animals of Yellowstone depend on each other in more ways than we thought. via Physorg...
because Wyoming does not know or care how ecosystems work. Great writing? How about firing the undergrads and hiring actual writers?
These articles are quickly becoming a joke. Maybe you don't understand the difference between wildlife management and extermination.
We stopped exterminating wolves and a host of other species in the U s a long time ago.
Allowing hunters to purchase licenses to hunt a limited number of wolves is called wildlife management.
For an excellent example of how management works look no further than the link to the U s. Fish
and Wildlife Service page on Grey Wolves you so helpfully provided: Long-term the Service expects the entire NRM population to maintain a long-term average of around 1000 wolves.
These wolves represent a 400-mile southern range extension of a vast contiguous wolf population that numbers over 12000 wolves in western Canada and about 65000 wolves across all of Canada and Alaska.
The Service and our partners will monitor wolves in the region for at least 5 years to ensure that the population s recovered status is compromised not
and if relisting is warranted ever we will make prompt use of the Act s emergency listing provisions.
Unfortunately in the name of'saving the wolves'you alienate the people you most need on your side to help'save the wolves
I now thanks to you support wanton murder of wolves in Wyoming. Yup you're disregard for all things scientific and logical annoyed me that bad.
Sorry wolves. I genuinely don't understand how a scientific magazine can publish an article this biased...
The wolf hunting is being managed by the Fish Wildlife and Parks department there which I have worked at.
It is a very competent agency with many educated biologists who have done extensive research on the wolf population...
There are reasons to control the population by shooting wolves and despite the fact wolf hunting has been possible for many years the population is still thriving.
This article is garbage with the bias so pathetically unsupported that its own links contradict the article.
If a bear or some wolves wonder onto my property and effectively steals a thousand dollar cow from me
and i'm going to drag their dead carcass out for all the other hungry bears and wolves to see
so they don't come back. Because I don't care if that poor little wolf is hungry
i'm hungry too and so is my family. Nature is just going to have to remember who's is who's. Such sentiment certainly doesn't speak for everyone who kills a wolf and
i condemn those who shoot wolves illegally. Formally Nooneyouknow...Keep'em coming Dan. The yahoos commenting just don't like simple facts.
The most important one being that humans are very poor at managing nature. With Friends like these wildlife doesn't need any enemies!@
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