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Here's a couple interesting tidbits I read recently:
(1) Why does a toucan have such a large bill? Hypotheses have ranged from peeling fruit to sexual ornamentation, but a new study at Brock University in Canada has found a new and perhaps the main function. Putting toucans in a rooms with varying temperatures and observing them with infrared imaging, they found that when it's hot, toucans increase the blood flow through the bill to radiate excess body heat. They found that heat loss through the bill can range from only 5% to as much as 100% of a toucan's total body heat loss. (2) Can cockroaches be lonely? A study at the University of Rennes in France found that cockroaches raised in isolation show the same later social impairments as many other animals. Those that had been reared in solitude were more reluctant to explore their environments, search for food, or approach other cockroaches, and more often failed to recognize the signs of a potential mate. |
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So calling someone a cockroach is not so off...
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Interesting. Thank you for sharing....
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Here's a couple interesting tidbits I read recently: (1) Why does a toucan have such a large bill? Hypotheses have ranged from peeling fruit to sexual ornamentation, but a new study at Brock University in Canada has found a new and perhaps the main function. Putting toucans in a rooms with varying temperatures and observing them with infrared imaging, they found that when it's hot, toucans increase the blood flow through the bill to radiate excess body heat. They found that heat loss through the bill can range from only 5% to as much as 100% of a toucan's total body heat loss. (2) Can cockroaches be lonely? A study at the University of Rennes in France found that cockroaches raised in isolation show the same later social impairments as many other animals. Those that had been reared in solitude were more reluctant to explore their environments, search for food, or approach other cockroaches, and more often failed to recognize the signs of a potential mate. 
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 very interesting I know that a cockroach can live without its head for a couple of weeks! |
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Mr. cockroach will you have Mrs cockroach to be your lawful wife? Mr. cockroach said I will,
Mrs. cockroach will you have Mr. cockroach to be your lawful husband? Mrs cockroach said I will, I Mr. cockroach, take you, Mrs. cockroach to be my wedded wife: to have and to hold from this day forward: for better, for worst, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish now and forever and ever. A famous poet once said, "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." your wife is a thing of beauty but it's more then a joy forever to you she is gift from God for your heart to love one another and of the fact that you are united in holy matrimony. I now pronounce you Mr. and Mrs. Cockroach you man have millions and millions of baby's to infest the entire house. Just remember don't ever stay in one place too long... The "Raid" will get you! |
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(2) Can cockroaches be lonely? A study at the University of Rennes in France found that cockroaches raised in isolation show the same later social impairments as many other animals. Those that had been reared in solitude were more reluctant to explore their environments, search for food, or approach other cockroaches, and more often failed to recognize the signs of a potential mate. I find this particularly interesting. If we call instinct unlearned behavior that is linked to autonomous knowledge then this is defiantly not an instinctual part of a roaches knowledge. Roaches learn. Amazing there may be hope for my brother after all!!! |
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