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All-species fitness: The light stuff: anglerfish brighten up the depths
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Thursday, April 9, 2015. The light stuff: anglerfish brighten up the depths. Goldfish showing off its tremendous fish-ness. Think of the fish you know best. They may look like this orange guy:. Having a certain hydro-dynamic shape facilitates movement in the ocean, so faster-moving fish (and marine mammals - think dolphins) tend to taper on both ends. In the ocean's depths, however, speed is less critical for survival. In patterns we don't yet understand.
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All-species fitness: Commuting canines
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Tuesday, April 23, 2013. When you have to take care of yourself in the urban jungle, a dose of instinct, ingenuity, and teamwork is mighty helpful. Blending in on the train. A motley crew of hundreds of stray dogs. Live in the suburbs of Moscow but commute into the city on the subway. To scavenge and beg for food scraps in the more fruitful (ha ha) downtown districts. This odd daily migration was the dogs' speedy (and highly adaptive! Like birds, mice, and liz...
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All-species fitness: The wolves of Main Street and the recovery of a famous ecosystem
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Monday, March 10, 2014. The wolves of Main Street and the recovery of a famous ecosystem. This is Yellowstone National Park. In the US, famous as the world's first national park that conserves one of the world's few intact temperate zone ecosystems. Yellowstone mountain meadow. image: Billy Hathorn, Wikimedia. These are elk, one of western North America's largest herbivores, a big relative of deer. Photo: Anayst, Wikimedia. This is a story of their interaction.
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All-species fitness: May 2015
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Sunday, May 31, 2015. Coffee is good (and bad, but mostly good) for you! Welcome to another Monday morning, and for many people, a fresh cup (or 2.) of coffee. Which is actually a Good Thing: despite the guilty pleasure and bad reputation coffee has generated, there is growing consensus among medical researchers that drinking coffee improves, rather than harms our health and fitness. Links to this post. Monday, May 25, 2015. Photo credit: Bill Adler, Flickr.
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All-species fitness: Trees and priorities
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Saturday, April 18, 2015. As you breathe while reading this on your wireless device, consider the trees and other plants that take in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. To help you out. Our collective fitness literally depends on them continuing to do that! Living trees and other plants help us in many other ways too, by creating cleaner, cooler. Quieter environments for us and for other animals, who in turn pollinate plants. What is biological fitness?
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All-species fitness: Strategic coffee - beer consumption
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Sunday, May 3, 2015. Strategic coffee - beer consumption. We recently learned how caffeine affects our brain. And nervous system, keeping us alert and awake by blocking the compound adenosine. From telling us we need to sleep and causing chemical reactions that increase brain activity. In case that was too much to read or process, here's a simplified version that also suggests strategic consumption of both coffee and beer! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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All-species fitness: Avoid ivory and help protect the largest among us
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Saturday, March 16, 2013. Avoid ivory and help protect the largest among us. You’d think that being the world’s largest land animal, by far, would keep you safe from certain things, such as getting hunted. It’s mostly true, but not true enough to keep elephants fit these days. One of my first posts. Elephants look for (and find! Water at the Samburu River, Kenya. Trunks: useful for picking up food, moving branches, and spraying water. They eat plants and mainl...
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All-species fitness: Bin masters: the raccoon family- adaptation to human landscapes 2
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Saturday, October 27, 2012. Bin masters: the raccoon family- adaptation to human landscapes 2. You’ve eaten dinner. There’s a noise outside. Someone or something is out there, possibly stalking you? Raccoons are enthusiastic trash collectors. Coatimundi looking for trouble on our back deck,. These masters of finding tossed-out goodies in your trash can, rubbish bin, or compost heap are members of the taxonomic family. Gives specific tips for keeping raccoons (...
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All-species fitness: April 2015
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Variations on food, fighting, fun, and form. Monday, April 20, 2015. Why we (and bees) crave coffee. OK, its Monday, wheres the coffee? Why do so many people crave coffee first thing in the morning? Yes, we need it to feel awake. But why coffee? 160;Why not an egg roll? 160;Or some yogurt? Because coffee, and not eggs or yogurt, contains caffeine. A substance that stimulates the human nervous system. And makes it think the body is still full of energy. Yeah, I dont need sleep! Links to this post. Goldfi...
