http://www.usm.maine.edu/bio/courses/bio205/bio205_19_vocal.html Frog, orangutan: Guessing the same action occurs, buoyant air is kept continuously in body,...
... Would essentially agree with that... if for no other reason they probably slept ashore for six, eight hours (in ground - nests, off the beach?) each day....
Inside Nature's Giants THERE are things we need to know and things we don't but might like to know all the same. There are things you wish you didn't know...
... Thanks, m3d! --Marc Joy Reidenberg 29 June 2009 Who: herbivore What: eats grasses and leaves, fruit, bark, roots Where and When: savannah, daytime ...
... Marc. Learning that they have only the one stomach (an seeing it in all its gory glory), was a bit of a surprise I always assumed they were like ruminants...
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_extinction_oscillator/ Cosmologist Adrian Mellott has an article in Seed Magazine discussing his search for the...
... Once you remove the food processing equipment (guts, bacteria) and food-manure from an elephant or gorilla, there's not much left, equivalent to a large...
(Fixed link) (spherical lens from Synergeo) http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterjug/870859498/in/photostream/ It is interesting to compare a mirror behind a...
... It's well possible that in some instances apes are more primitive than OWMs (who seem to have got adaptations to drier forests & ground-dwelling). ... ...
... In this regard, it is the opposite, apes-humans are derived, monkeys primitive. "it is known that in primates a large caecum with a small or absent...
... Yes, this was a continuum since the Tethys brackish wetlands, land was where to sleep but waterside was where most food was. ... Sea otters aren't known to...
at certain geologic periods Ireland-Britain--France Norway-Sweden--Finland Portugal-Spain--France Levant-Arabia--Turkey Point is the Levant/Arabia was isolated...
"Rabbits do have an appendix but quite different from hominoids. The fact that they leap may indicate former reliance on wetland foraging." DDeden Should we...
... "The US scientists found that the appendix acted as a "good safe house" for bacteria essential for healthy digestion, in effect re-booting the digestive...
As I've said, short tails do not indicate any level of aquaticness, nor do air sacs. The combination of complete loss of tail and laryngeal air sac indicate...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil_4 BANGKOK, Thailand – Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/opinion/l01brooks.html To the Editor: David Brooks's key point is the power of context in shaping behavior, yet he begins by...
... Agree elephants and to a certain extent gorillas and chimps, are little more than gut. The scientists on the program, mentioned that elephants also...
... They're hindgut feeders AFAIK. ... Yes, they seem to have been semi-aquatic until not so long ago, I guess until the Piocene. Are woolly mammoths & woolly...
... Hindgut fermenters ... like rhinos? ... It is the other way around ... Mammoths are/were closer to Asian elephants... ( both the Asian an African...
... The principal behind Moore Lappé's fundamental assertion is logical, and probably true, that human prosperity has made it possible to overindulge cravings...
Opinions opinions opinions You can always go play with your light saber Michael. Brooks promotes a falsehood, Lappé corrects it and explains it with...
... From: DDeden To: AAT@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:59 PM Subject: [AAT] Re: The stoat and the hominoid inversion ... Perhaps. What's more...
... Right, which is why I was confused when you use the Proboscis monkey and long tailed macaques as examples of swimming/diving/wading primates without...