by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Canis familiaris photo © bein_korean Canine duality as both herd and herd-dog The domestic dog is perhaps the only animal farmed for human consumption while – at the same time and place – employed to guard livestock of its own species against theft. This incongruous...
by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Connochaetes mearnsi & Equus quagga boehmi photo by Uli Sauer Why zebras are attracted to wildebeests i.e. more intensely pigmented than the normal colour Photographs Appearance of Equus quagga and Connochaetes spp. to Crocuta crocuta Appearance of Equus quagga...
by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Equus spp. and Crocuta crocuta photo by Eric Baker via CreativeCommons 2.0 Camouflage along different lines in zebras i.e. more intensely pigmented than the normal colour Zebras coexist with ruminants such as wildebeests with which they cannot keep up reproductively....
by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Albert Einstein photo by Ferdinand Schmutzer [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons Scientific misnomer of human species The scientific name of the modern human species means ‘wise’. However, wisdom cannot be measured and has never been compared between humans and...
by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Panthera leo, adult female, photo © JRAWLS Effeminate make-up in adolescent male lion Panthera leo, adolescent male, photo © shankar s Panthera leo, adolescent male, photo in the Public Domain Unlike the mature male, the adult female lion has a neck-flag consisting...
by BioEdge | Mar 9, 2016 | Site Content
Proteles cristatus photo © Dominik Käuferle The whispering neck of the aardwolf Proteles cristatus photo © Greg Hume The camouflage colouration of the aardwolf has an unexplained incongruity on and next to its neck: there are no stripes from the side of the head to a...
