The unique hilarity of men's genital pain has become somewhat of a fixture in certain corners of pop culture from MTV's Jackass to America's Funniest Home Videos.
This playful challenge aspect of humor might go back to primates Polimeni theorizes--the way young chimps hit an alpha male in play to test boundaries.
There's also some evidence that apes enjoy slapstick too. In Inside Jokes Indiana University cognitive scientist Matthew Hurley and his co-authors put forward yet another theory of humor:
. I think that's part of the reason the Jackass guys getting hurt is so funny Mcgraw says.
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
A new study from Colorado State university geology professor Ellen Wohl finds that these beaver meadows store carbon temporarily sequestering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
With reductions in the beaver population we're missing out on a whole lot of potential carbon storage.
Between 60 million to 400 million beavers once lived across 60 percent of North america but European settlers substantially reduced the population through hunting and trapping.
When beaver populations relocate and abandon their dams beaver meadows eventually dry up into grasslands and the wood and organic matter buried there begins to decompose
and release carbon dioxide. This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
Wohl found that the abandoned beaver dams she studied made up around 8 percent of the carbon storage in the landscape
and that if beavers were still actively maintaining those dams the number would be closer to 23 percent.
As such wiping out most of the continent's beaver population during pre-Colonial times probably had quite an impact on the climate.
Beavers: Squirreling away our carbon log by log. The study appears in Geophysical Research Letters.
Science via Phys. org Considering we're at a critical carbon deficit right now it's about time to start wiping these pudgy menaces out for good!
Cute Beaver and interesting article too. Critical carbon deficit? WTF are you talking about?@@Frosttty for most of the history of the world we have had significantly more atmospheric carbon than we do now.
The beaver is a destructive animal that needs to be hunted or exterminated. A single beaver can
and will build a dam that will flood and create a pond anywhere from 2 to 10 acres.
As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
Beaver teeth grow through out their life like most rodents and they must alway chew/grind on something.
Why doesn't the author try to calculate how much forest was saved (carbon dioxide sequestered) by trapping the beavers?
We could easily return half the world's farmland to wilderness for Beaver and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Reading some of these comments it's clear that it's not enough that beavers sequester carbon raise the water table augment the density
what kind of startling data it will take to convince readers that beavers really are worth a dam!
But the fact is that it takes a lot more than beavers to feed the estimated 7 billion people that populate the earth.
So what does all this have to do with beavers? How many dam beavers would it take to help us out?
And do we even have the room for them on our rivers and streams? And could that land be used instead in better more efficient ways?
Not beavers. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology...aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets.
On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...One of the legends about Daniel Boone is the type of cap
My father Daniel Boone always despised the racoon fur caps and did not wear one himself as he always had a hat.
I and many other people aren't having children to be pharmaceutical guinea pigs. And to be honest all this hacking the immune system with vaccines
Don't worry though I won't be sending my un vaccinated feral children to your state ran institutionalized learning facilities to possibly contaminate your pharmaceutical guinea pig state owned children.
The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk
but the third time someone calls you a horse well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle.
however with using these monkey kidney cells to both create the original vaccine strains and grow the vaccine in large quantities.
Monkeys contain simian viruses. 11 When the poliovirus was passaged through the monkeys or grown on the monkey kidney cells for production extrane g
#New Dinosaur Species Found In Utah Totally Looks like A Cowholy cow! Scientists have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur called Nasutoceratops titusi
A Pew survey taken last month bears this out: Android is beating ios in all income brackets except one.
when they Do in response to my questions Scottie Ellis a spokeswoman for Long John Silver's emailed
#Taste Receptors Found In Mouse Testicles. Tasticles? Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center made a startling discovery while investigating the sense of taste in mice:
not only do mice have taste receptors on their testicles but any attempt to remove these taste receptors results in infertility.
We're not sure which is weirder. The taste buds on the tongue include lots of taste receptors little bits of protein that bond with other chemicals to detect and signal flavor.
And mice it seems have them in their testicles. The taste receptors have the ability to distinguish broad categories of flavor--sweet sour salty umami bitter.
and deliver information to the brain the mice became completely sterile. Sperm count plummeted spermatozoa failed to develop properly
and the mice completely lost their ability to procreate. Why does this happen? Well the researchers have no idea.
It might just lead to research about mouse testicles. Which is fine too. PNAS via Business Insider It does kind of explain why mouse traps get the mouse in the leaving position.
We thought the mouse was escaping but in fact he was tasting lol. If a mouse is caught wearing a g-string it not really a g-string
but in fact he is flossing lol . i wonder could they be like ph detectors or somthing similar that let the body monitor the environment in the mice's balls?
and when the researchers removed them the body could not detect anything amiss so didn't correct imbalances that killed off the sperm?
It could be as simple as tasting as they run learning where a snack might be for later.
Eating Yogurt Turns Mice into Giant-Balled Seduction Machines...Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males:
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males...
http://jezebel. com/5908274/eating-yogurt-turns-mice-into-giant+balled-seduction-machines...Oh my god.
Can't we women just have one thing to ourselves without a pair of giant testicles swooping in
and obesity fed a group of 80 mice either a junk food diet or a standard diet supplementing half of each group with yogurt.
As expected the junk-food mice wound up fatter and slower than the standard-diet mice and the mice that ate the standard diet plus yogurt were the slimmest of all.
the scientists noticed that the yogurt-eating mice were incredibly shiny. Sparkle you special little mouse!
Sparkle! But what the researchers didn't anticipate was this: Those mices'balls got HUGE:
Then the researchers spotted some thing particular about the males: they projected their testes outward
which endowed them with a certain mouse swagger Erdman says. On measuring the males they found that the testicles of the yogurt consumers were about 5 percent heavier than those of mice fed typical diets alone and around 15 percent heavier than those of junk-eating males.
Oh my god mouse swagger. Great. So now yogurt OUR YOGURT is some sort of magic machismo superfood for men.
I can't wait to get hit on by aspiring pick-up artists wearing Camelbaks filled with Yoplait under their zebra-print dusters mainly
I will be helpless before the swagger of these sparkling man-mouses! But to be fair the magic yogurt does have some effect on woman-mice too:
Conversely females that ate the yogurt diets gave birth to larger litters and weaned those pups with greater success. So once
I get seduced by the Mystery Mouse I'll be able to successfully whelp hella babies wearing tiny fur top-hats and steampunk novelty goggles.
and perhaps all or most mammals wouldn't be a strech. I know it's not tested and proven
In other words could mouse and possibly a human male contraceptive be as simple a cutting a nerve
Head transplants have been done before most famously with rhesus monkeys in a 1970 procedure. But joining up a pair of central nervous systems proved too difficult to crack;
in the case of the rhesus monkeys many organs became functional but the animals were paralyzed from the neck down due to an inability to properly connect the spine.
Last week researchers at Case Western University and the Cleveland Clinic managed to restore significant control in rats with spinal cords cut as they would be in a head transplant (though this study didn't actually involve head transplants.
The spinal cord is reconnected by creating a sort of scaffolding made of nerve fibers from the rat's rib cage
After six months the rats regained bladder control though they never regained the ability to walk.
However mammals are too big but what if in parts they could be made smaller to survive freezing.
Then one mouse could conceive a larger mousses embryo and so on until it s large enough to be engineered to give birth to a pig.
Then a genetically altered pig gives birth to a chimp and finally from chimp to humans.
Even still this is the same problem as resurrecting the Thylacine or Wooly Mammoth both being worked on today.
Both expected to eventually work. Also keep in mind that pigs may soon produce custom human pancreases in the near future other organs to follow.
but this only needs to work long enough life span to give birth the next larger mammal.
Or Illegalone way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant first.
which elephants and every other living creature on earth incorporated into their bodies in unusually high levels during the Cold War era.
whether a piece of ivory comes from an elephant that died before or after the United nations banned products made from elephant parts in 1989.
The tool's creators hope it will help officials prosecute those who harvest and sell ivory illegally.
In spite of the international ban poachers kill about 25000 elephants each year according to the conservation groups. About 423000 African elephants live in the wild today according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's estimates.
The tool also works for determining the age and thus the legal status of rhinoceros horns
which are poached because some Asian customers believe they cure a variety of ailments. The belief comes from traditional Chinese medicine NPR reports
although China removed references to rhino horns from traditional medical books after banning the trade in 1993.
The ivory group tested many animal tissues this way including hippopotamus teeth elephant tail hairs and blue monkey hairs in addition to elephant tusks and rhino horns.
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a dog being made to wag it's tale by giving it a bone...very funny. 0bama promises to'work with anyone'who agrees with him
I have the eating habits of an urban raccoon and barely touch fruits or veg.
One long-haired hippy who smells like dog ***and never cuts his fingernails drinks only Mountain Dew 1 liter sizes.
#A History Of Daring Red panda Escapesthe red panda looks like a fluffy raccoon-cat frolics in the snow like an arctic otter
What's not so well-known is that red pandas are also master escape artists. So we shouldn't be surprised that Rusty the red panda made a break for it last night from the National Zoo.
Red pandas may look like terrestrial animals like raccoons but they're arborial--they're awkward and clumsy on the ground
which is super cute but misleading. They're designed for life in the trees with super-sharp claws for climbing.
The Association of Zoos and Aquariums notes that to prevent depression red pandas have to be given items to climb on.
red pandas are escape artists. They might not be great jumpers but that's about their only weakness as far as escaping goes;
Here is a timeline of red panda jailbreaks. Back in 1978 Rotterdam was the site of the first known red panda escape.
It also spawned what's called the red panda effect in psychology and cryptozoology circles. Though the red panda was found (dead unfortunately)
just as newspapers publicized the escape Rotterdam natives spent the next year or so calling the zoo insisting they'd seen a red panda.
The red panda effect refers to the way the brain fills in the blanks--you see what you expect to see in other words.
If you're expecting to see a red panda you see a red panda even if it's just a dirty raccoon.
Skipping ahead a bit in 2005 a red panda named Babu managed to escape from what we assume is a dreary home in the Birmingham Nature Center.
Babu had made allegedly several escape attempts before finally slipping out of his pen. He was found in a tree in a nearby patch of forest 60 feet above the ground four days after escaping.
A year-old red panda named Yin made a name for herself back in 2007 by escaping twice in a single month.
Red pandas you see are spectacular climbers much more agile than their bumbling zaftig gait would imply
and Yin's enclosure was in a heavily wooded area. Her first escape was in broad daylight
while surrounded by onlookers--she emerged from a cave for feeding and simply ran up a tree
In one of the longest escapes ever documented a mother red panda and her cub managed to escape from a Scotland zoo
Back in 2009 nobody even noticed that a red panda vanished from its pen. It made its way over to the nearby and leafy Regents Park where it was spotted by park security at 3 a m. just hanging out on a tree branch.
Last year at the Dresden Zoo a red panda managed to get out of its pen and climb high up into a nearby tree.
Since red pandas escape so often zoos that house them typically have a procedure for getting them down from the trees they like to hide out in
At Dresden they spray the red pandas with hoses which motivates them to climb down so the zookeepers can nab them.
At around 6 p m. on June 23rd Rusty the red panda somehow made his escape from the National Zoo.
and noticing a red panda's absence though Thinkprogress alleges that budget cuts may have reduced staffing. Rusty less than a year old caused a huge stir with his disappearance sparking a citywide panda-hunt
and forcing millions of horrible tweet-jokes and dozens of fake Twitter accounts. He was found this afternoon in a bush not far from the zoo was brought safely back
Groggily cursing the AI that is always promised but never quite arrives I boarded the maglev train.
I would call a lion hunting a gazelle evil. It's merely another aspect of nature. dsdoan You point is taken well in the same way of their exist a ying
Instead the aim is to induce one species to grow an organ of the other not a combination of two species. He's done this with mice and rats;
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
#Many retired men enjoy tinkering in the garage to fill the hours working on an old Jaguar XKSS say
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and found that in mice these cells produce chemicals that regrew bone and flesh. So what if in the absence of natural Wnts you used genetic engineering to force tissue to produce these proteins?
When they forced the production of Wnts in mice the team managed to regrow bone
This has huge implications for the treatment of amputations--the experiment was performed only on mice
why do raccoons foxes know how to cast a broken leg; to find the perfect site for recovery water food shelter prey vulnerability reduced.
My elderly office manager says we are the lesser monkeys. When my child was born with a severe heart anomaly sentencing her to global developmental retardation Mental and physical
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#European Bee Sperm bank Will Improve U s. Bee Gene Poolhere's a new idea for protecting the declining honeybee population in the U s. One team of scientists is importing European honeybee semen for fun
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and he fills it with a variety of white powders--salt fiber potassium chloride monosodium phosphate and maltodextrin (carbohydrates) from an enormous tub labeled Muscle Feast and adorned with a weirdly muscular dog.
The first night Tom and I go out with friends and drink beers watching while they chow down on burgers and macaroni and cheese.
because they have no way to survive naturally-horses are different-THERE ARE wild horses and they do some what ok with out human intervention...
just as close to cows as wolfs are to dogs but your right if we didnt eat cows there would be very very few of the wild
or tame variety truely wild horses dont exist theyre all tame ones that escaped and bred unless you count zebras cows can breed WITH BUFFALO
and produce fertile offspringsure sounds like wild cows to me nomunclature not withstanding steak from a tube might taste ok it depends
#World's Oldest Primate Fossil Discovered A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton.
Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago this fossil is the oldest primate fossil beating the previous record-holders--including Darwinius from Messel in Germany and Notharctus from the Bridger Basin in Wyoming
It's not just that it's the oldest primate but it turns out that this fossil tells us that primates had already been evolving for quite some time.
This primate was advanced already fairly in terms of the evolutionary tree says Christopher Beard a coauthor of the study and paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum of Natural history.
The Archicebus sits at a branch of the evolutionary tree which goes in two directions:
one toward living tarsiers large-eyed night-dwelling small primates and anthropoids the monkeys apes and humans
and its basal evolutionary position this discover supports the idea that the common ancestor of both tarsiers
and anthropoids were quite small. These two branches anthropoids and tarsiers have been thought to be linked evolutionarily for some time
and now scientists are starting to understand the age of that split. Beyond its addition to our understanding of evolution the ancient primate is also unique in its physique.
One of the most curious characteristics of the Archicebus is its feet. Tarsiers tend to have elongated heel bones
which help give them leverage for their giant leaps. Anthropoids have designed feet specially for grasping
though humans are a bit of a special case given our unique disposition of walking bipedally.
but a little marmoset which is a type of monkey from South america I was convinced this thing was going to be a very primitive anthropoid Beard says.
Here's an animal that combines features that we've just never seen before in one fossil primate.
But after the exhaustive analysis it became clear that Archicebus was linked also closely to tarsiers.
To fully analyze the fragile fossil researchers collaborated with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble France.
and compared with other primates both living and fossilized. The analysis and data-gathering was one of the longest and most extensive phases of the study.
whereby a liver changes into a lung or a dog into a giraffe. I don't want waffle such as enzymes do this or that or âÂ#Âoewe believeã¢Â# fairy stories.
A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the worldã¢Â#Â#s oldest known fossil primate skeleton...
Because they would've had to have had a living breathing primate for the beady-eyed part or am
A stunning new fossil shows how simians got their start By Kate Wong. Excerpts:..a nearly complete 55-million-year-old skeleton of a mouse-size creature known as Carpolestes simpsoni.
Like modern primates (or euprimates...it has long fingers and toes as well as nails on its opposable digits...
But unlike euprimates this animal exhibits laterally positioned eyes and legs built for climbing not leaping...
that Carpolestes and its fellow plesiadapiforms were in fact archaic primates...Also see: news. nationalgeographic. com/news/2007/02/070201-primates. html Fossils of'Most Primitive Primate'Found Near Yellowstone by Brian Handwerk National geographic News February 1 2007.
Excerpts:..in a new study the paleontologists who found the fossils say that plesiadapiforms are in fact the most primitive known primates...
two 56-million-year-old fossils embedded in limestone in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin...'Not only does it share many characteristics with other primitive primates
but it seems to also share characteristics with the most primitive living tree shrews which are not primates'Bloch said...
In addition to detailing the fossil finds the study compared 173 skeletal characteristics of plesiadapiforms primates tree shrews and flying lemurs in hopes of unveiling their evolutionary links...
Comparisons of 85 living and extinct species suggest that all plesiadapiforms are actually primitive primates Bloch said...
The team's finding is likely to spark debate some scientists note because Dryomomys szalayi doesn't have all of the traits traditionally associated with modern primates.@
@Usutu: Good post but allow me to share some nuances from my own research. Darwin actually thought mutations (sports as they were called then) only played a small role in evolution.
He thought the main driving force was from organisms continually being pressured to adapt over generations sort of like Lamarck's idea but much slower.
Your liver to lung and dog to giraffe are bad examples as nobody is saying those transitions did
Then too beady might be a relative term here as some small primates like tarsiers
and bushbabies have relatively huge eyes compared to their small heads so these critters'eyes might not look so beady except by comparison.
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