Just want to quickly point out some interesting reading that popped up in this month’s issue of Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (and in a LiveScience post). Estrus cycle asynchrony in wild female chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii. The authors (Matsumoto-Oda, et al.) highlight the prevalence of the synchronized cycle mating strategy (among primates and other animals) [...]
March 17, 2007
The Curse of the Monkey’s Paw
Did you know that between October 2005 to September 2006, US airport inspectors “reported 50 incidents of discovered bushmeat, with each shipment averaging about 9 pounds? That works out to about one shipment being caught every week!” That is what the CDC has reported in an article over at ABC News. The article, “Bushmeat: Curse [...]
