Snakes are silly. One head may attack the other even if it just smells like prey. These anomalies do pretty well in captivity, though. The term for this two-headedness is bicephaly or dicephaly (used interchangeably).
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Cows laying down is a good indication, but it would’ve been funny if I hadn’t specified that more than usual should be down. I think of cows as equal parts lazy as hungry. If a cow laying down were always […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
DK! Donkey Kong! The pericentric aspect of the term “pericentric inversion” refers to the fact that the centromere is included in the inversion. The centromere is basically a central part of a chromosome that links sister chromatids and where the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Also, wearing light colors doesn’t deter them either. I personally haven’t had a problem with bees. I used to flick them for funzies and didn’t get stung. Now I just use tennis racquets and shoot for the fences.
Cuts of meat are completely different other places. I enjoyed the naming of the British cuts. They have “neck and clod”, “rump”, and “silverside”. Good stuff!
Of course, there will be water in the fat and quite a bit is used when they metabolize the fat. When the fat in their humps is used up, they’ll shrink down and get all floppy. They can go up […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Saying “hours of video games” is like commenting on the number of milliseconds spent brushing teeth. A pheromone is considered to be something that transmits information chemically within a species, via a molecular messenger. Thus, you wouldn’t be randomly seduced […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture is an unsolved math problem that’s currently one of the Millennium Prize Problems. This means that you get a million bucks and some serious props if you solve it. Opossums do more than mentioned in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most cat eyes will have a golden or greenish sparkle, but Siamese cats have a red “glow”. Now that’s creepy. Apparently the two most common cat names in 2009, according to some survey, were Bella and Sassy. As much as […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…