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Animal | Vegetable | Mineral

Exploring the Earth and Animal Sciences

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Welcome to Animal | Vegetable | Mineral

I never cease to be awed by the splendor of the natural world, by the forces that shape the earth, and by the diversity and ingenuity of the life that populates it.

Animal | Vegetable | Mineral is a group where those who share this fascination can discuss the Earth and animal sciences of geology, volcanology, seismology, ecology, ethology, primatology, entymology—basically all the –ologies of the natural world. 
 

For general science, chemistry, genetics, or evolution, please post in the Science! group. For posts on animal rights and welfare, please post in Animal Care. For cosmology, please post in The Daily Cosmos. For green living, sustainability, and environmental activism, please post in the Green Atheists group.


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News Thread: Empathy and Reciprocity in Animals
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Website Links: Conservation, Protection, and Advocacy

 

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Ugly Pictures of Animals

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Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 20, 2012 at 11:45am

Those are interesting questions Chris, but I don't know the answer. As far as them sitting on their feet to keep them warm, perhaps so, but that could be just an assumption. It may appear to be that way, but they'd have to sit on their feet no matter what. We can't expect them to stand all the time, right? So when they sit or sleep, of course their feet are tucked beneath them. That doesn't mean they do it for any particular reason.

Comment by doone on April 20, 2012 at 9:35am

Apr. 20, 2012

funny science news experiments memes - Danxia Landforms...They're Strange


I’m assuming this is where Sid & Marty Krofft live.
-JH

Comment by Chris on April 20, 2012 at 1:01am

That's interesting about birds feet. I was told after I first build my chicken coup that I had better hurry and put a perch in it because the birds sit on their feet and cover them with their feathers so they don't freeze. I was also told that chickens that had black patches on their feet suffered with frost bite in the past. I wonder if the cold weather adaption is only for birds that naturally inhabit cold weather areas.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 18, 2012 at 9:28pm

BirdNote® Why Birds’ Feet Don’t Freeze

 

Birds have adapted to cold weather to keep their legs and feet toasty, even during the coldest of winters. Michael Stein reports how it works.

 

Listen to the podcast.

Comment by doone on April 18, 2012 at 8:23pm

Apr. 18, 2012

cute animals - Basking Beauty


What is this fancy see-through lizard? Look! You can see his eyeballs through his eyelids, so cool!

Comment by doone on April 11, 2012 at 3:18pm

10. The Tick

The Tick

Oh my. He looks like a television with antennae sticking out from the top. And did they really have to make his fake abs so pronounced in this rubber suit?

Comment by doone on April 11, 2012 at 12:19pm

Apr. 11, 2012

Funny Animal Gifs - boink

Comment by Chris on April 11, 2012 at 2:51am

I'd like to have that tree on the West side of my house. At about 4:30 in the summer, when the sun hits the west wall the second floor room temperature shoots up 10 degrees.

Comment by doone on April 10, 2012 at 2:49pm

Apr. 10, 2012

funny real estate - Seasonal Shade


Thank you, trees, for providing what we actually need when we need it!

Comment by doone on April 7, 2012 at 6:38pm

Apr. 7, 2012

Funny Animal Gifs - Raven's Wing

 
 
 

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