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This sums it up well, I think
Posted from Laelaps 16 minutes ago
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more music charts Read the comments on this post... (original story)
The Boneyard #26 is on exhibition
Posted from Laelaps 13 hours ago
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The Boneyard #26 is now up for your viewing pleasure. It's a really good one, and my only regret is that I didn't have the time to write up an entry for it! Read the comments on this post... (original story)
In search of John Daniel
Posted from Laelaps 14 hours ago
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Last week I wrote about the brief life and death of John Daniel, the "civilized gorilla." I wanted to know more about him, chiefly whether I could still see him at the AMNH or not, so I sent a query to the museum. Here's the information I got back; Gorilla gorilla gorilla From: Barnum and Bailey Gender: Male Museum #: 54084 Mounted on exhibit, 3rd floor Primates Hall He's still there (or, rather, his skin is), behind glass in the gorilla-poop-colored display in the Hall of Primates. In about two weeks I'll be heading into the city, to see the Japanese macaques at the Central Park Zoo in ... (original story)
Photo of the Day #421: Sea lion and trainer
Posted from Laelaps 16 hours ago
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A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) and trainer, photographed at the Bronx Zoo. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
The 5-56 Meme
Posted from Laelaps 1 day 3 hours ago
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I was hoping someone would tag me for the "5-56" meme that has just started going around. (Thanks, Bora!) The rules are that you have to pick 10 books (of whatever genre, chosen any way you see fit) and transcribe the 5th sentence on page 56 of each book. If you're slick you can use Google Books to figure out where the quotes I have selected came from, but it's a lot more fun to guess. Here are my picks; 1: "Above, i.e. towards the elbow, a tubercle of the radius plays into a socket of the ulna; whilst below, i.e. towards the wrist, the radius finds the socket, and the ulna the tubercle." 2... (original story)
Photo of the Day #420: American bison
Posted from Laelaps 1 day 10 hours ago
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An American bison (Bison bison), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
The Boneyard #26, coming tomorrow
Posted from Laelaps 1 day 14 hours ago
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There has been a slight hold-up in getting the next edition of The Boneyard ready for exhibition, so you have an extra day to get your posts together. Any paleo-posts are fair game, but remember that Traumador wanted to make this a special edition all about your favorite museum; So my thinking for this themed boneyard is for anyone and everyone out on the innerweb to put up a post about their favourite museum... it doesn't have to be a really "smart" or sciencey one, cause afterall it's me the archosaur without enough grey matter to fill a walnut running the show! rather i'd like to get to... (original story)
Give the gift of SEED
Posted from Laelaps 1 day 14 hours ago
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This past October, many ScienceBlogs readers and SEED teamed up to donate over $33,000 to science classrooms around the United States. Continuing this generous trend, SEED is now offering a reduced-rate subscription price of $14.95 to anyone who donates a subscription of the magazine to a science classroom. It's a good deal, and it gives you another chance to boost science literacy in classrooms around the country. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
The life, and death, of Ota Benga
Posted from Laelaps 1 day 22 hours ago
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During the past week I've been tracking down information about various performing primates and famous apes like "Consul" and John Daniel, but as I did so something kept bothering me. Didn't the Bronx Zoo, sometime early in the 20th century, display a person from Africa in the Monkey House? Althou... (original story)
Photo of the Day #419: Flamingo
Posted from Laelaps 2 days ago
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A flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
Photo of the Day #414: Ebony langur
Posted from Laelaps 3 days ago
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An ebony langur (Trachypithecus auratus), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
Thank you
Posted from Laelaps 3 days ago
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The results for the 3rd Annual Blogging Scholarship are in, and, I'm sad to say, I did not win. I came in 5th, and the winners were The Burnt Orange Report, USS Mariner, and American Papist. I must admit that I am little disappointed, but as I have said before, I wasn't expecting to win. It's not a... (original story)
Consul's revenge
Posted from Laelaps 3 days ago
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When I last visited Sea World in Orlando, Florida, I saw the Shamu show. It didn't matter that the original Shamu died in 1971; she was so iconic that the biggest of orcas at each theme park is still presented under her name. (The individual I saw was actually called Tilikum.) This kind of symbol... (original story)
Photo of the Day #411: Giraffes
Posted from Laelaps 3 days ago
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A pair of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis), photographed at the Bronx Zoo. Read the comments on this post... (original story)
149 years ago today
Posted from Laelaps 3 days ago
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149 years ago today, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was released to the public. It was instantly sold out. For a "secret" formulation of a mechanism by which evolution could occur, there certainly was a lot of excitement about it, even if On the Origin was ... (original story)
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