1. Pigs
Pigs are not meant to be ridden, which is exactly why my unnamed source and her little childhood friends tried to ride them. I suppose kids growing up in semi-rural Alabama in the 1960’s didn’t have many other entertainment options.
“We used to sneak out to this pig pen out by the woods, and [...]
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A zebra’s stripes, a seashell’s spirals, a butterfly’s wings: these are all examples of patterns in nature. The formation of patterns is a puzzle for mathematicians and biologists alike. How does the delicate design of a butterfly’s wings come from a single fertilized egg? How does pattern emerge out of no pattern?
Using computer models and [...]
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In most zoos, employees feed and care for the animals. At Egypt’s Giza Zoo, police say, workers have been turning them into dinner or selling them as pets.
When two Moroccan camels were butchered in August, the perpetrators left behind only the hide and hooves. A police investigation found that a zookeeper had slaughtered the animals [...]
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If you were a zebra, how would you spend your days?
Daniel Rubenstein, director of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, has been pursuing this question for years.
He and collaborators spend their summers in Kenya trying to figure out how endangered zebras form social networks, avoid predators, and interact [...]
The hunter-versus-hunted phenomenon exemplified by a pack of lionesses chasing down a lonely gazelle has been recreated in a Petri dish with lowly bacteria.
Working with colleagues at Caltech, Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a Duke University bioengineer has developed a living system using genetically altered bacteria that he believes can provide new insights [...]
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An elk, an emu and an alligator — no, this isn’t the start to some lame joke — those are just three of the animals you might spy at Cherokee Trace Drive-thru animal safari.
The park features a 300-acre preserve of 400 animals — 25 different species — of free-range animals that hail from far-off places [...]
