by Anthony | Oct 30, 2014 | Countering Mumblebard
Eyespots on the dorsal fins of the twinspot goby are startling for the overlooked coexistence of a family of fierce crabs. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “Like other ocellated animals, the twinspot goby uses its eyespots to simulate the staring disembodied eyes of...
by Anthony | Oct 27, 2014 | Biological Exposition
Note to readers: Biological Expositions is a series of blog-posts each of which is equivalent in content to a book chapter. If a bio-bullet is likened to a starter, our routine blog-post could be seen as a light lunch and a Biological Exposition blog-post as a three...
by Anthony | Oct 15, 2014 | Countering Mumblebard
Extremely complex pudenda occur in some of the smallest of vertebrates. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “The position and the proportional size and complexity of the intromittent organ of the priapiumfish and some of its relatives are remarkable. These...
by Anthony | Sep 30, 2014 | Countering Mumblebard
The longest tooth of the basking shark is a phallic grapple of the vagina. Prof. Mumblebard claims: “It is axiomatic that dentition and genitalia are mutually exclusive in the bodies of all vertebrates. This is because teeth are anterior whereas genitalia...
by Anthony | Sep 22, 2014 | Blog
Domestic cat (Felis silvestris cactus) © Bramans Black-and-white armbands remind bullies that small cats can scratch above their weight. No mammalian family more thoroughly exploits camouflage than the cats. Whether by stripes, rosettes, blotches, mottles, melanism,...