A myriad of people have heard that insects actually sing. But when speaking of biology, what is a singing insect? In biology, a ‘song’ is referred to as a sound which is made by a specific animal during their breeding…
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The average lifespan of an African elephant is, put simply, about 60 years. However, to understand why this life expectancy is intriguing, one must delve a little deeper into elephant aging – which is in some ways much stranger and…
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Imagine, for a moment, that science has made astounding achievements in human/ animal DNA Gnome splicing, allowing for greater strength (gorilla), longer & stronger brain functions (sharks) faster running capabilities (cheetahs, pumas, panthers). and then let’s take that just a…
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When you see a large buzzing insect what do you usually associate it with? Is it a bumble bee or is it a carpenter bee? Would you be able to tell the difference? Whilst the two insects are similar on…
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Cladocerans are also known as water fleas. They are crustaceans in the Class Branchiopoda and Order Cladocera. All but a few of the 400 species live in freshwater. Cladocerans are distinctive looking with a large unpaired eye in a foreward facing head on…
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To simply sum it up, why not? With the current acceleration of development of technology, we may very well be able to activate a series of microbots that physically alter our characteristics on command. That could be one solution, however, one…
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Back in the 1800s a legend grew in the wilds of Idaho about the ‘monster worm’ that could choke a horse and fend off predators by spitting. Old-timers back then referred to the creature as the spitting worm; those with…
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Earthworms in the rain: What are they doing slithering along the sidewalks, driveways and through the grass? The “conventional wisdom” always told us that all those earthworms came up out of the ground during heavy rains so that they would…
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The higher multicellular animal world can be divided into two major groups by their embryological development. The majority are protostomes in which the blastopore in the original ball of cells, the blastula, becomes the mouth of the developing organism. The…
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South America has a vast animal wildlife population. Tourists find the wild primate population fascinating especially along food market strips. Monkey’s beg for food and when food is withheld, stealing is an accepted alternative. Either way it is all quite…
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