CBC shared Liam Casey's Canadian Press report about the vicious fighting for power in the Toronto Zoo's baboon population following the death of the troop's matriarch.

A brutal battle for the throne of a baboon troop at the Toronto Zoo that erupted when the matriarch died became so vicious that staff intervened with hormone treatments to take "a ( Read more... )

CBC News reports on how Toka and Thika, two elephants formerly resident at the Toronto Zoo, are adapting well to their sunset years in a California sanctuary.

For Toka and Thika, retirement is turning out just fine. There's warm sunshine, new friends to spend time with and the chance to do whatever they want ( Read more... )

Seriously Science linked to a paper, "Use of incidentally encoded memory from a single experience in cats", which suggests cats actually have very good memory compared to dogs ( Read more... )

Savage Minds introduces the first of several posts to be made this month by Coltan Scrivner about personhood, starting from the question of whether other primates are people.

When the concept of a person is brought up, many seem to begin by comparing the “other” to humans, using our species as a measuring stick. We take for granted that our ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about what he has learned from his huskie.
• Bad Astronomy shares some gorgeous Cassini images of Saturn's polar hexagon.
• Centauri Dreams looks at L2 Puppis, a red giant star that our own sun will come to resemble.
• D-Brief notes climate change is starting to hit eastern Antarctica, the more stable region of the ( Read more... )

National Geographic's Christine Dell'Amore's feature is quite right to identify the elephants fleeing poachers into Botswana as refugees, I think. What a terrible situation.

The elephants swim across the river in a straight line, trunks jutting out of the water like snorkels. With low, guttural bellows, they push their bodies together, forming a ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith notes that his husky loves the winter that has descended on Ottawa.
• blogTO notes Toronto's continuing housing price spikes.
• D-Brief notes that chimpanzees apparently are built to recognize butts.
• Dead Things reports on discoveries of the first land vertebrates.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the weird patterns of KIC 8462852.

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The Crow Agenda (1920 X 1080) from Jason Arsenault on Vimeo.
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The Crow Agenda, as described by its Indiegogo fundraising page, is a recent documentary a half-hour long that takes a look at Charlottetown's crow population and the whole complex mixture of thoughts about them. Apparently these feathered apes are common here.

Charlottetown, ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes Niagara Falls' new light show.
• Body Horrors reports on a 1980 epidemic of MRSA among Detroit drug users.
• Centauri Dreams describes the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting Tabby's Star is being star-mined.
• Language Log looks at an element of Chinese slang regarding telecommunications.

• blgoTO notes how the Guild Inn was once a popular resort.
• Centauri Dreams notes the import of real scientists in Arrival.
• Crooked Timber notes that anti-Trump Republicans did not seem to matter in the election.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at cutting-edge options for studying exoplanets.
• False Steps notes a proposed American spacecraft that would have ( Read more... )