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He describes, for instance, the research of Rüdiger Wehner, a Swiss scientist who glued tiny stilts made of pig hair to the limbs of desert ants. Because the insects with longer legs consistently overshot the nest and got lost, Wehner demonstrated that ants have an internal odometer: they carefully count their steps when searching for food.
Pre-armadillo alligator! Rad! It's the perfect balance between cute and scary.
Read this (awesome and very my-life-appropriate) article last week about how humans evolved as runners. Forgot to bookmark it until now! Totally essentially for any runner/science geek.
Ooooh, I like this as a blog structure (reading a classic for the first time and reacting to it, chapter by chapter). In this case, it's Darwin's "Origin of the Species" in preparation for Darwin Day on Feb. 12.
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In April 2006, a white bear with brown patches was shot in northern Canada and DNA tests confirmed it was a 'grolar' bear. It was said to have been fathered by a male grizzly and a female polar bear.
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