Giant Panda Puzzleboard

Giant Panda Puzzleboard

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...
Heaven on a barbed stick

Heaven on a barbed stick

Note to readers: Biological Expositions is a series of blog-posts each of which is equivalent in content to a book chapter. If bio-bullets are likened to a starter, blog-posts could be seen as a light lunch and Biological Expositions as a three course meal. We look...
Behind the bio-edge

Behind the bio-edge

If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. ― John A. Wheeler …there’s no reason why scholarship can’t be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing. — Jonathon Keats A scientific training is a...
Hunting dogs hide their wolfish emotions

Hunting dogs hide their wolfish emotions

Cuon alpinus photo © Johan Spaedtke   Canis lupus photo © Kristi Herbert CC-BY-2.0 Hunting dogs hide their wolfish emotions The wolf, Asian hunting dog and African hunting dog all rely on hunting large herbivores gregariously in different...
The puma as an unmasked leopard

The puma as an unmasked leopard

Puma concolor facial colouration photo © Art G The puma as an unmasked leopard Panthera pardus facial colouration photo © Tedmek The puma is the American counterpart for the leopard of Africa and Asia. Their facial colourations are, however, extremely different, the...
Human brewing pays for the enzymes lost by stewing

Human brewing pays for the enzymes lost by stewing

Kiviaq, a dish made of little auks preserved in the hollow body of a seal, photo in the Public Domain                                Human brewing pays for the enzymes lost by stewing Cooking speeds digestion but also makes food more costly to digest by destroying...