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Inhuman Doctors: Zoopharmacognosy and Self Medicating Animals

Many major cultures around the globe have developed some form of medical science. The Indians have Ayurveda, the Chinese have TCM and of course there is Western medicine. What these fields have in common is that they are derived from the process of observing Read More...
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Evolutionary arms race between snakes and newts

Rough-skinned newts ( newts of the genus Taricha granulosa ) are one of the most poisonous animals in the world. In certain populations, the poison in a single newt can kill up to 20 humans. However, the newt’s predator, the common garter snake ( Thamnophis Read More...
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Masters of Hide and Seek

I remembered watching this Discovery Channel program on cable a few years back and it was seriously one of the most brilliant and incredible documentary I’ve ever seen. It was of a dark, alien world filled with strange looking creatures, with some being Read More...
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