wildlife
Platypus - A bird, a reptile, a mammal
The platypus is classified as a mammal because it produces milk, suckles its young and is covered in fur, but it also lays eggs like a bird or reptile and males have poisonous spurs on their hind legs like a reptile. The Nature paper analyzed the genome of a female platypus named Glennie in Australia [...]
Olympic Torch Flower?
I have recently come across a news in South Asia by Asiaone. I have to say it actually hold a resemblence to the Olympic Torch, much joy to the PRC out there who will be hosting this special event in 2008. This is the excerpt about the “Olympic Torch” plant:
….”This plant is in the last [...]
Global Food consumption, krills harvesting and our fragile ecosystem
I recently read an article about we humans trying to raise the harvest of krills globally. The article was written by a Reuters reporter named David Forgarty, who might be actually based in Singapore. I am not sure, maybe 黑哥(pronounced Hei-ge) can actually tell me whether it’s true. But that’s not important, it’s the actual [...]
Meet the Bonobos - If we could be like them
This is not a chimpanzee, but another smaller variation found in the Republic of Congo, called the Bonobo. They exist and live in one small and shrinking place, the swampy equatorial forests of the left bank of the Congo River. What makes these creatures so special is not because they are primates or what, but [...]
