So far, so good. It looks real ‘purdy and I have a WYSIWYG html editor again (I had been doing all the posts for the last little while by hand-coding them–yeah, I know, poor me). C’est tout.
A recent article (hyperlink below) suggests that the male freshwater dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) that Heather and I got a chance to see in Peru this year (photographic evidence above) hold and thrash objects at the surface to “impress” females. What’s particularly interesting is this quote from the researcher: “It’s particularly interesting that the complexity of […]
Right after I posted on filming tigers with elephant-deployed cameras, this comes along: I, for one, welcome our four-legged wildlife-filming overlords.
Popping up on all sorts of blogs this morning is the news that the BBC natural history unit has been using elephants to film their latest documentary. The tone of most posts is in the “How cool is this?” vein, and while it’s certainly ingenious, I can’t help but be intrigued by it for different […]
My first Robins of 2008. I saw one male on my walk this morning eating crab-apples and another, from the apartment, in the crown of our Mulberry tree. I wonder how the snow effects them–since they’re frutivores, I would imagine less than some ground-feeding birds. House Sparrows collecting nesting material. In this case it was […]
Mr. Towers, Thanks for your comment concerning my use of three pairs of underwear–oops, I mean unmentionables–while on vacation in Peru. This is a personal blog with little or no audience, so I was pleased that you took the time to comment. I do have to say though, that I was slightly hurt with the […]
¿ Que pasa?, originally uploaded by Gavatron. We spent our last day in Lima at the Lima Zoo. Generally speaking, I don’t like visiting zoos, but I was curious to see what a zoo in Peru would look like, how the animals were kept and if there was any great difference between the hemispheres. Beginning […]
I was reading about this guy’s “biggest Star Wars Collection in the galaxy” when I came across this gem in the Q&A: JD: What’s the oldest [Star Wars toy in your collection]? RF: The oldest ones are the first series of vintage toys that came out with the movie in 1977. Flashing across my brain: […]
I’ve changed the permalink structure of this blog so that the URLs for each post make more sense to humans rather than machines. The only problem with this update is that any old hyperlinks to material on the blog are now b0rked. Given that I have a readership of me, it shouldn’t be too big […]
Heather and I went yesterday and saw the documentary Up the Yangtze. I thoroughly enjoyed it (and you can find out more about the film, if you’re interested) and was equally disturbed by it–not the movie itself, but the subtext. Thumbnail sketch: China has opened up to Western Tourism, and Western Tourists are interested in […]