and you barely care as your practiced jaw scrapes the pure taste of the season from the cob.
Can you just chow down on Big macs as far as the brain goes and be pretty much set?
it's nothing famous like the giant panda or Amur leopard but instead the forest coconut native to Madagascar.
and California the Hibiscadelphus Woodii a flowering tree in Hawaii and the Dusky Gopher Frog located in Harrison County Mississippi.
The story of how humans evolved from knuckle-walking primates to upright bipeds is still a matter of great debate among anthropologists.
My wild card guess when monkeys change to running primates is when we became meat eaters.
Baboons walk upright when they wade in water to keep their heads up. Our ancestors might have learned that this was adventageous out of the water as well. visualize There is some theorizes that we primates might of spent a lot of time in water as you said forcing us to stand more up right loose our fur too.
I'd like to see you escape a cheetah by climbing a rock face. These dudes are master climbers.
They will be across the field and on your back before you're half way up the cliff.
If we evolved from apes we lost our strength speed climbing ability and protective hair (well..
Literally every insectivorous animal in the northeast--songbirds carnivorous birds (hawks owls) opossums foxes cats shrews snakes spiders and even dogs--will gorge on cicadas.
Redwing blackbirds and eastern bluebirds have been found to have much stronger and healthier broods in years that coincide with Magicicada's emergence as do mammals like foxes and raccoons.
When cicadas lay eggs they use their proboscis to cut little slits in thin branches
Global Warming is a load of dog crap. If UN'scientists'{politicians) were compelled to disclose how much money is being spent on monitoring global temperatures we'd find that it's in the hundreds of millions if not billions.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Is that better?@@Raynre You're welcome to some of our spring here on the Canadian prairies.
and liquid oxygen in his XR-5k18 rocket engine powering its Lynx suborbital spaceplane will emit much less in the way of aromatic hydrocarbons than traditional kerosene-based rocket fuel.
Previously the team conducted this entire process including a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer in monkeys.
Those monkey embryo clones always died before they could grow into adult monkeys. While nuclear transfer breakthroughs often lead to a public discussion about the ethics of human cloning this is not our focus nor do we believe our findings might be used by others to advance the possibility of human reproductive cloning Shoukhrat Mitalipov the clone research's lead scientist said in a statement.
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Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North america? The infamous Mystery Monkey of Tampa an escaped rhesus macaque was captured back in October.
The rhesus macaque is not a rare monkey; it's adapted to human society better than most can survive on all kinds of foods
and can live in most any kind of hot-weather environment. And yet the Mystery Monkey captured the nation's attention.
A monkey! On the loose! In Florida! So cool! And it got us wondering: why aren't there monkeys all over the United states?
We've got tropical zones in the Florida keys and the Caribbean hot grasslands in the deep south humid swamps in Louisiana and South Florida.
Why don't we have any wild monkeys here? I spoke to Dr. John Flynn a paleontologist
and expert on mammalian evolution at the American Museum of Natural history to find out why the US is stuck with lame squirrels and pigeons and stuff rather than cool monkeys.
In terms of modern primates that's a true observation he said. But 50 million years ago there were primates here.
It turns out there are lots of reasons why the ancient primates that inhabited what is now the United states--and even Canada!
--no longer call those areas home. Primates came to the New world (meaning North and South america) from we think Africa.
As improbable as it sounds scientists think early primates crossed the Atlantic ocean and landed on the shores of both continents tens of millions of years ago probably on some kind of vegetation raft.
That's how most plants and animals get to isolated islands --which The americas were at the time.
Fossils have been recovered of early primates in Texas a whopping 43 million years ago the oldest primate fossil ever found in North america.
The Isthmus of panama which we now refer to as Central america didn't appear until much later by which time the climate on both Americas was very different from when the primates first landed there.
and the primates evolved and diversified to take advantage of that. Then the planet began to cool
which most of the world's creatures (aside from a precious few like the Virginia opossum and the dormouse) were unable to adapt to the new climate
It hit the primate family especially hard. In the New world the primate population shrunk significantly.
Any primate living in say the Great lakes region simply went extinct unable to cope with the new Wisconsin winters.
In South america the primates contracted to the region around the equator. But even the hottest southernmost parts of North america--then still detached from South america--were too chilly or otherwise inhospitable for the North american Primates.
The few places where they maybe could have survived like the Florida keys and the islands of the Caribbean were inaccessible.
Sure monkeys could have survived in Aruba if they had arrived at just the right time. But the chances of getting there on some kind of float the way primates had come over from Africa so many millions of years before were slim
and the Earth was cooling rapidly. There are some primate fossils from the Caribbean; Some monkeys have gotten to some of the Caribbean islands
and gone extinct says Dr. Flynn. Another collection of random events and they might have survived but not this time.
The specific type of primate that survived is called the Platyrrhines. The Platyrrhines or New world monkeys says Dr. Flynn are all arboreal.
They live in tropical forests; they're specialized for that kind of habitat. So the monkeys we now know which live in the warmer
and more forested parts of South and Central america are all the survivors of the cooling planet.
They lucked out and ended up in the one section of the New world that could suit them.
And there they stayed adapting and evolving. Then 3 million years ago the Isthmus of panama formed connecting North and South america and separating the Atlantic from the Pacific oceans.
A few species--Dr. Flynn specifically named the various species of spider monkey--were hardy enough to move north along the isthmus
Too dry and too sparsely forested for a New world monkey to traverse. Why haven't they moved further north?
Unlike the macaque and other Old world monkeys--or even non-primates like the raccoon or fox--they need trees they need heat
There's a distinct climate zone division in southern Mexico--no Mexican monkey can make it on the northern side.
Primates are often intelligent but that doesn't translate into adaptability. Think of the mountain gorilla restricted to a few populations in forested Central africa unable to live anywhere else.
Adaptability is often a sign of intelligence but intelligence in a species is no guarantee of adaptability.
The recurring answer to the question of why there are no monkeys in the US is how would they get here?
when that latitude would be deathly cold for a monkey. The only way you could get to North america would be polar routes
Even the most extreme monkeys don't get to the super high latitudes so the continent was effectively sealed off.
Monkeys can certainly survive in North america. The Mystery Monkey of Tampa is proof enough of that.
But for them to survive here they have to get here--the monkeys that were here the Platyrrhines aren't the ones to survive in a place like Tampa.
It's actually possible that a Platyrrhine could maybe give it a go in the Caribbean or the Florida keys the most tropical environments north of Mexico but:
Macaques could make it but it would take someone bringing them here--and that's exactly
what happened in the case of the Mystery Monkey which was part of a troupe of macaques released by some lunatic tour boat operator known as Colonel Tooey who thought the macaques would make for a better Jungle Cruise.
This is a true story. Florida is weird. Short of a whole bunch of determined crazies monkeys that would survive in North america don't have the means to get here.
Could the scourge of climate change lead to a friendly neighborhood monkey in Brooklyn? Anything is possible in evolution says Dr. Flynn.
So no monkeys in the near future. But if the temperature keeps rising I'll keep an eye out my window just the same.
Very interesting but the real reason we don't have monkeys is bananas. We don't have bananas.
Natural monkeys and Neanderthals primates do not like the cold. It is only the alien-(Gods as they were referred by the local folk
and exploit the primates and inventing modern man to really exploit the primates for their own purpose as the alien foreign folk visited Earth.
The Caribbean does have primates. the island of Trinidad has a fairly large population. And what physical separation is there between North
Why couldn't the monkeys just walk to North america like any other animal and adapt along the way?
And it is definitely possible for monkeys to adapt to cold. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Golden snub-nosed monkeythey seem to do very well living in Atlanta Chicago and DC...
Even the cold monkeys cant navigate the WARM areas to get to the COLD areas. that is why animals die off the habitat they are in dies offi've seen quite a few.
There's a breeding colony of 3500 rhesus monkeys on a SC sea island. They're owned by the NIH
They actually do carry a virus that's harmless to monkeys but 80%fatal to humans!
Google monkey island sc if you don't believe it. monkeyisland...Historically the island has been uninhabitited due to its location and distance from the mainland.
Originally the monkey colony now located on Morgan Island was located in La Parguera Puerto rico at the Caribbean Primate Research center (Klopchin 2). According to the CDC (Center for disease control
and Prevention) there were incidents of the free-ranging monkeys escaping while infected with the herpes B virus
. Although the herpes B virus is not harmful to the monkeys once transmitted to a human the virus infection has an almost 80%fatality rate (Shemcreeks).
when the monkeys became overpopulated. Puerto rico was alarmed by this and South carolina stepped in to offer an island for research.
South carolina offered uninhabited Morgan Island for the monkeys to be housed. In 1979 over 1400 animals were relocated to Morgan Island (Klopchin 2)..http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Morgan island south carolinamr. george---it mentioned that possibly primates possibly crossed the atlantic in some type of boat
--i disagree--at one time there werent any massive oceans there must have been large seas between the continents---during the cooling period of earths formation steam was settled developing
when earth was starting to be formed. the primates were able to leave africa and cross the world travelling around the sea between africa and north america coming to our part of
. but before thenprimates just migrated from africa to here walking around the sea. even camels were here. there bones have been found in tucsonarizona;
when the primates came to the united states they discovered there werent bananas here so they didnt stay
and develop or wed have monkeys today in the united states. Can we blame global warming on those little North american monkeys in their monkey boats?
If anyone is interested actually in some answers about primates I'm a primatologist-in-training inquire
Beating the dead horse again Pinatubo's eruption ejected enough particulates to cool the globe for a couple years.
@Moose-brightness is a technical astronomical term used to define the the power output of an object so the term itself makes sense in this context.
@Moose Billisarius; No experiments have proven that the speed of light is not a constant for particles.
As Moose says You can't simply tell a 15-30yo-aged male to eat potatoes and beans.
and moose there is a great new study on New Study Finds Nothing That Will Actually Convince You To Change Your Lifestyle So Just Forget I l
Small's study comes after a few years of research into mice rats and fruit flies have found that the animals are able to sense nutrition independently of taste.
People are still working out the exact mechanisms in mice much less people. Still Small thinks it makes evolutionary sense.
and can't settle their brains sufficiently to concentrate on walking the dog without simultaneously texting and listening to their ipods.
Another part of the feeling that the modern human is misplaced in urban society comes from the realization that people are still genetically close not only to the Romans and the seventeenth-century Europeans but to Neandertals to the ape ancestors Holland mentions and to the small bands
or a sled dog with legs that can withstand subzero temperatures because of the exquisite heat exchange between its blood vessels both are full of compromises jury-rigged like all other organisms.
the dog must run and find food as well as stay warm. The pigment used to form those dark specks on the insect is also useful in the insect immune system
For the dog having long legs for running can make it harder to keep the cold at bay
when a frog or a monkey looked down at itself pronounced itself satisfied and said Voilã Â I am done.
Our bodies therefore reflect a continuously jury-rigged system with echoes of fish of fruit fly of lizard and mouse.
Humans were tweak from the natural primate to better interface with our alien over lord or GODS.
Even anti-evolutionists have to realize that humans were not always here so it entirely possible that we may die out like every other smart ape.
Look at how quickly we bred a poodle from a wolf. Now imagine how we transformed the dreaded tiger
and the ferocious lion by culling the most dangerous maneaters from their gene pool for thousands upon thousands of years.
So my guess is today's predators are a pale shadow of their ancient kin
Its not like squirrels are hoarders or foxes or ravens...or many other animals that demonstrate distinctly Human qualities.
and the excessive hording is a sign that we humans DNA have been tweak from the natural primate and no longer natural to this world.'
Hey@Popsci is the#mysteryanimal a baboon? And then I might say if you think that's a baboon perhaps you are the baboon!
But probably not because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want!
Your dumb kids who thought that was a baboon! Update: And the winner is...Seth Rosenthal who for the second week in a row correctly guessed the mystery animal first!
The gerenuk is called also the long-necked giraffe though it is not closely related to the giraffe.
In fact it's the only member of its genus so it's not that closely related to any other species
The gerenuk's identification with the giraffe comes from both its long neck and its feeding habits.
Thanks to the biggest pyromaniac of them all Smokey the Bear we've been seeing an uptick in the devastation of forest fires
I just don't see how we were duped by that bear. He has'Smokey'in his name for goodness sake!
Some bears just want to watch the world burn. Oh stop it makes me want to weep.
But why don't we just hunt them as we do with other tasty overpopulated species like the white-tailed deer?
They're cute and fluffy like wolves! Protect them! Sign a petition! Thought the article was about humans before
So what it they are smarter than deer. That is where the skill of the hunter comes in.
Apparently all you really need to stop them is two pretty cow girls with a jeep and a couple of dogs.
if there's a caliber for killing lion elephant and cape buffalo there's one for Ms. Piggy.
And in another article we're told that their natural predators wolves have been taken off the endangered species list
Shouldn't wolf populations be allowed to control this pest? Check out Youtube to see wolves taking down boars.
Trapping them in cages and selling them too Europe works the best people have jobs doing this.
Feral hogs eat wolves. They are vicious and very tough. The folks at Red Jacket Sons of Guns build an AR platform in. 458.
That's elephant caliber. It's intended especially for wild hogs. 2 shots not one.
Higher animals such as primates and dolphins evolved in a greenhouse earth. Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill! and start changing Bring on the thorium!
In the future you might be able to eat the whole thing cob and all. This weird possibility is courtesy of some scientists at Virginia Tech who have transformed cellulose a mostly indigestible polymer into helpful indispensable starch.
They worked with a series of synthetic enzymes to break down the hydrogen bonds in some plant material that would not otherwise be used for food like corn cobs and leaves.
It's bad enough that the corn is modified mostly genetically into another unknown poison now they want us to eat the cob too
This would be more useful for ethanol production than eating the cob
#You Can Hear When Trees Are Thirstyimagine you're just polishing off a glass of soda.
No no no I could not be related to a monkey!!!Impossible that idea offends me.
I'm just saying we need to see more animals with variety much like the platypus.
If Darwin never existed then none of us would ever know the joy of being a monkeys uncle rofl...
-and presto chango-ones goes from an amoeba to an elephant. well cool beans. But Even Darwin lost sleep over this.
What about having sex with your hand the door a chicken a cow or horse?
#Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? If you're anything like me you may have wondered why some monkeys have bright blue skin.
Even if you don't pay careful attention to monkey butts you may still have wondered what makes some people's eyes blue.
This added complexity is the secret to the blue monkey butt. To understand how photons move through a complex tissue like skin lets compare a red photon with a blue photon as it hits two tissue layers.
A baboon's butt tissue is arranged somewhat like the illustration above so that blue photons are reflected
This is why we see we see blue monkey butts! So now you will never look at a monkey's butt the same way:
you will know what makes it blue! You will even be able to hold your own
P. S. Stay tuned for next time's discussion about imaging cats through a layers of milk another wonder of light diffusion.
And also nothing about WHY monkey butts are colored...If we asked Jane Goodall Im sure she would skip the refraction part
and I cannot lie All you other bonobos cant deny when a female of non-direct relation walks in with a deep blue backside coloration your baculum gets sprung!
A very illuminating asspiring arictle with butteautiful illuastrations of primate buttocks! LOL thanks Wanamingo I love your song.
Now here are some pictures of monkey butts for your amusement. They are colored to attract mates.
Why Are Monkey Butts So Colorful? Answer: Because they are blue. That is essentially what you said.
A much better answer would have included discussion of the types of colorful pigments in different monkey butts
@Wanamingoclick on the gallery they explain for each monkey separatly---No facts No response..
#How It Works: Honeybee Societya beehive buzzes with thousands of genetically similar female honeybees. Some nurse their queen and her eggs while others fly out in search of pollen and nectar.
The big challenge is teaching the robot to adjust its behavior in real time to account for all the variation in different birds says Ai-Ping Hu senior research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
just as eager as individual farmers to open their gates to the 18-wheelers from Newark.
That way they could just bring the 18-wheelers in and not have to turn them around after they dumped the drums.
Hansen is a living example of the idea that a chimpanzee randomly typing will occasionally generate something coherent.
Cats Are Particular About What They Pee Oncats and many other mammals like to pee on things.
It's called urine marking and acts as a form of communication through scent (and to a lesser extent a visual signal.
A new very important study in the Journal of Zoology found that the way cats--specifically the European wildcat--mark is intentional and particular.
Felis silvestris the European wildcat looks like a slightly larger and stockier version of a housecat. Its taxonomical separation from the housecat is complicated by the fact that wildcats
and housecats interbreed often.)Wildcats are highly territorial and mark their territory by urinating and leaving strategic poops all around their areas.
When urine spraying a wildcat raises up its tail and ejects backwards a spray of urine against a prominent object of its surrounding environment says the new study.
But as it turns out wildcats look for specific kinds of trees and plants to mark based on how well those plants natural characteristics will spread the scent of the mark.
It was assumed that cats merely mark large objects--marking the biggest tree or biggest rock for example--but that's not the case.
European wildcats favor the juniper tree not choosing it for its size but selecting it over larger nearby non-juniper trees.
and the cat chooses the juniper because the study suggests its natural oils will mesh with the cat's scent to make the mark more powerful than the mark is alone.
The study says that therefore wildcats select those plants which could enhance the olfactory effectiveness of the mark.
It's not totally clear how chemically scent marks interact with the volatile organic compounds in the juniper
but it is clear that the cats choose those more than other plants. Cats: they don't just pee anywhere.
Read the whole study here (subscription required. Pee-snickery wild kitty purrr purrr pur! Just goes to show that cats
and other animals have great intelligence and instincts! --Sir William the Cat of www. indefenseofcats. comi'm almost certain one of mine is peeing on towels
and may peed on my guitar. It bothers me so much. It may be why I don't play with the guitar anymore e
With brain-wasting disease in our deer and elk and steroidal enhanced deficiencies accumulating in our cows this bodes really well for U s as a nation huh?
This is of course in addition to the many many other species dying across the globe these days-manatees on the coasts birds all over fish and crabs all over.
When you see a bear die off it would probably be a good time to consider spending more time with your family.
me and to the environmental watchdogs groups I work with is how often testing is done
Spanky Thomas Skipper Porkchop Mohammid Elvis Sandi Bela Yankee Fergie Murphy Limburger and some 300 other dogs and cats that reside at the company's Palatability Assessment Resource
Cats and dogs are not grain eaters by choice Moeller is saying. So our task is to find ways to entice them to eat enough for it to be nutritionally sufficient.
For cats especially Moeller says change is often more difficult than monotony. Sigh this article is harolding better kibble based off more meat products.
If your dog is happy and healthy who cares? Must be doing something wrong I've fed all of my dogs kibble and not the expensive organic scientific stuff either.
They have lived long healthy lives. Healthy enough that when I have to change vets they always comment on my pets'condition
and wheat grainsã¢Â# and that cats and dogs are not grain eaters. âÂ# I think it is worth noting that there are plenty of pet foods available that are grain-free that do not require tricks to âÂ#Âoeentice pets to eat enough for it to be nutritionally sufficient.
and some 300 other dogs and cats came from before they'resided'in a lab cage at this facility
If you feed a 90lb. dog 3 cups of cheap kibble twice a day along with canned food you could do the same job with just 2 cups of premium kibble twice a day with no canned food at all.
The only downside is that your dog will be more energetic. I can change my cats'food any time
I want as long as the new stuff costs more than the old stuff. The problem is I can never reverse the process.
raw meat with the bone (never feed a dog cooked bones. Premium kibble is still kibble.
Hence we all feed our dogs Cheerios with beef broth sprayed On it's for our convenience not for the dog's benefit.
I feed both our dogs on nothing but chicken thighs pork neck bones and occasional beef. They have sweet breath white teeth silky coats no hot spots no fleas bright eyes and calm energy.
and their paid nutritional experts could tell me what was appropriate for a dog to eat.
But in a natural state dogs do need not these nutritional experts. They know what to eat.
They're scavengers predators and carnivores (not omnivores like bears. I say feed'em what they want.
Why would you deprive a dog of that? hi sam! very interesting and informative article. however I will comment for a different reason here. please convey this msg of mine to AFB International President
or religion. please convey to the relevant person at AFB Int'l that they should not use names for dogs
and cats that relate to or even resemble religious figures like Prophets (in the Bible or in the Quran).
or religion. please convey to the relevant person at AFB Int'l that they should not use names for dogs
and cats that relate to or even resemble religious figures like Prophets (in the Bible or in the Quran).
and making it so the dogs WANT TO eat it doesn't seem fair. It's called capitalism they are making a product to sell people people want it to be cheap
but they want their dogs to eat it. You should be upset with your peers in society for being so naive.
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