http://www.nytimes.c...y-inner-life.html
Sloths farm algae in their fur using dead moths as fertilizer.
You wouldn't believe this if it were in a movie
http://www.nytimes.c...y-inner-life.html
Sloths farm algae in their fur using dead moths as fertilizer. --
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Talk about complicated symbiosis.
Alex
ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. -- Isaac Asimov |
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Imagine the poor grad student
"Welcome to the project. You'll be watching sloths to see how they interact with coprophageous parasitic moths and fur algae."
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Drew |
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That is incredible.
And so cool.
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Says your inner six-year-old
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Drew |
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Neat.
Thanks for the pointer.
http://labs.russell....hs-in-costa-rica/ This work is funded by the National Science Foundation. IOW, your tax dollars at work. "... promote the general Welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..." Cheers, Scott. |
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A timely discovery?
I mean: chlorophyll-like implants.. perhaps solving a % of the problem of the oodles of nefarious substances attached to biped FOOD everywhere
(at least, for those who cannot afford the $$ to be picky about alt-suppliers to Big Ag.) A new fondness for the sloth; there be method to its slowness--it be a physicist, without the formulas. A sloth knows more about the planet-bearable [# of megawatt-hours energy consumption] per year/per humanoid: not to emulate us suckers. If we'd only bothered to ask.. |
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Did you say Sloth?
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T h a t . . . . w a s. . . . .p r e t t y. . . . .A w e. . .
I n s p i r i n g,
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You wouldn't believe this if it were in a movie
- (drook)
- (8)
- March 26, 2014, 05:17:11 PM EDT
Talk about complicated symbiosis.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- March 26, 2014, 05:53:20 PM EDT
Imagine the poor grad student
- (drook)
- March 26, 2014, 07:48:05 PM EDT
That is incredible.
- (jake123)
- (1)
- March 26, 2014, 07:52:25 PM EDT
Says your inner six-year-old
-NT
- (drook)
- March 26, 2014, 08:05:04 PM EDT
Neat.
- (Another Scott)
- March 26, 2014, 10:04:16 PM EDT
A timely discovery?
- (Ashton)
- March 26, 2014, 10:33:25 PM EDT
Did you say Sloth?
- (mmoffitt)
- (1)
- March 27, 2014, 09:35:17 AM EDT
T h a t . . . . w a s. . . . .p r e t t y. . . . .A w e. . .
- (Ashton)
- April 15, 2014, 03:34:04 AM EDT
