oh, animals. You're so cute AND so wacky.
Aug. 11th, 2009 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agentotterHere now for your entertainment is a much more enjoyable form of the linkspam: bioblogging! w000000t!
Science has proved Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher." Researchers offer crows a juicy worm in a pitcher of water, crows drop pebbles into the pitcher until the water level rises enough for them to snatch the worm. I fucking love crows, man. They're smart little fuckers.
Here's a cool bit of bio news: orangutans use leaves to fashion "musical instruments." Apparently the point of it is that using the leaves lowers the pitch of their call, making them sound like bigger orangutans than they actually are, and in theory making predators think twice about coming to eat them.
This one I have to link not so much for the information -- which is interesting, but I'm not really a botany enthusiast, so it's not interesting enough on its own -- as for the hilarity. The Fruit Is A Lie, a post about what is and is not technically a "fruit."
And while we're on the subject of plants, here are some fucking massive ones that eat meat. It's a pitcher plant so big it catches rats, you guys. Coming next week on the "SyFy" channel: Pitcher Plant vs. Venus Fly Trap II: Ultramegadeath Showdown! And for an added dose of cool? They named it after David Attenborough.
Something else to add to the list of cool: this venomous sea snake uses its tail to fake out predators. While it's got the business end of its venomy head down in a crevasse looking for noms, it holds its tail in a manner that makes the tail look like a head. You're fucking awesome, venomous sea snake. I mean, assuming you're not in league with the jellyfish.
By the way, if you didn't check out Fuck You, Penguin from the last time I linked it, you definitely should now. Not that anything significant has changed or anything, just that you really don't want to miss this. At all.
Science has proved Aesop's fable, "The Crow and the Pitcher." Researchers offer crows a juicy worm in a pitcher of water, crows drop pebbles into the pitcher until the water level rises enough for them to snatch the worm. I fucking love crows, man. They're smart little fuckers.
Here's a cool bit of bio news: orangutans use leaves to fashion "musical instruments." Apparently the point of it is that using the leaves lowers the pitch of their call, making them sound like bigger orangutans than they actually are, and in theory making predators think twice about coming to eat them.
This one I have to link not so much for the information -- which is interesting, but I'm not really a botany enthusiast, so it's not interesting enough on its own -- as for the hilarity. The Fruit Is A Lie, a post about what is and is not technically a "fruit."
And while we're on the subject of plants, here are some fucking massive ones that eat meat. It's a pitcher plant so big it catches rats, you guys. Coming next week on the "SyFy" channel: Pitcher Plant vs. Venus Fly Trap II: Ultramegadeath Showdown! And for an added dose of cool? They named it after David Attenborough.
Something else to add to the list of cool: this venomous sea snake uses its tail to fake out predators. While it's got the business end of its venomy head down in a crevasse looking for noms, it holds its tail in a manner that makes the tail look like a head. You're fucking awesome, venomous sea snake. I mean, assuming you're not in league with the jellyfish.
By the way, if you didn't check out Fuck You, Penguin from the last time I linked it, you definitely should now. Not that anything significant has changed or anything, just that you really don't want to miss this. At all.