Dead zone (ecology)
Grim that the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 gets a section on this page..
Tagged “animals”
How To Speak Honeybee
Document Friday: Acoustic Kitty
CIA experiment of hiding surveilance equipment inside cats
The names of all manner of hounds: A unique inventory in a fifteenth-century manuscript
Rare, precious, smells like whale: hunting for ambergris in New Zealand
Punishment, Puppies, and Science: Bringing Dog Training to Heel
Studies all seem pretty loose. Lot of self-reported, correlational studies with the unsurprising result that people with happier dogs punish them less.
A UK study that used dog trainers and didn't self-report, but they didn't measure baseline recall!
A Plane of Monkeys, a Pandemic, and a Botched Deal: Inside the Science Crisis You’ve Never Heard Of
Federal report says removing Snake River dams ‘essential’ to helping threatened salmon
clean electricity vs animal welfare tradeoffs
report found that breaching lower Snake River dams is “essential” to helping protect and recover threatened_ salmon populations."
Revenge of the Earthworms
Windshield phenomenon
The windshield phenomenon (or windscreen phenomenon) is the observation that recently fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields of people's cars. It has been attributed to a global decline in insect populations caused by human activity.
Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
They concluded white stripes! The zebra's skin is black, and the change in pigment in the hair makes it white.
A Rare Sighting of a Glass Octopus Reveals its Nearly Transparent Membrane in Extraordinary Detail
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