Carl Rasmussen | Father and son on a kayak trip off the Greenlandic coast (1874) oil on canvas. Carl Rasmussen (Danish,1841-1893)
Author: Sea Run
The Dark Triad of Hunting
Psychology-of-trophy-hunting It has been suggested that narcissism, machiavellianism and (non-clinical) psychopathy are all involved, the so-called “dark triad” of personality characteristics. Understanding hunter motivation is important, not least because it can lead to improved wildlife management policy and practice, and can tell us, ultimately, what can be done to combat trophy hunting. No bias in …
Old Age, Time, and Beauty
Two of Bejan’s insights that have sparked the imagination of the public involve beauty and time. In 2010, he posited that the golden ratio, leveraged in works ranging from the Parthenon in Athens to the Mona Lisa, is so pleasing to people because it allows for the most efficient scan of a composition by the human …
Blackbird Downburst
An article on it. Other scientists agreed with McGowan. Richard Broughton, an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, told the Guardian that the flock looked “like a wave at the beginning, as if they are being flushed from above.” Ronald L. Mumme, an ornithologist and biology professor at Allegheny College, said the birds “dove, became …
The North of the Waste White vs a White Eagle
Waterdogs, Genome Size, Genetics, and Evolution
Junk DNA Deforms Salamander Bodies
Potential Re-wilding Tech?
Potential Re-wilding Tech? The technology means the forest’s cattle can spend their time in carefully selected spots without the need for barbed wire or electric fences to keep them from wandering across the roads surrounding the former royal forest at the northern tip of London. This is interesting. I can see it allowing rewilding of species without …
I wonder what the holes mean?
An image of GPS tracking of multiple wolves in six different packs around Voyageurs National Park shows how much the wolf packs avoid each other’s range. Image courtesy of Thomas Gable Source
Mongolia Pix
I stumbled over some pix by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami. Some seem staged like above but they are interesting.
Nice charts.
Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA paper A shorter blog version. Open in a new tab to embiggen.