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Watch Chimps Speak with Scottish Accents

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One might have trouble working out all the implications of British scientists’ findings that chimpanzees adopt the accents of other chimps when in a new environment. ABC News reports that After growing up in the Netherlands, nine chimpanzees who moved to the Edingburgh Zoo in Scotland five years ago are now reportedly sporting Scottish accents,…

Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Politics, Religion, Science/Nature, State Government, Wisconsin

Budget First

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Last week, Gov. Walker declined to answer Englishman’s question about whether he, Scott Waker, believed in evolution. Today, in the Journal Sentinel, one learns that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos does believe in evolution.  (I’ll bite: I was raised in a liturgical, high-church tradition that taught that the theory of evolution was consistent with faith.  I…

Animals, Birds, Science/Nature

Turkey on a Treadmill

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Not every turkey winds up sharing part of a plate with some cranberry sauce. A few turkeys, including the one below, play a role in scientific research. Here’s the description accompanying the YouTube video from The Roberts Lab at Brown University: This turkey is one of Dr. Thomas Roberts’ research subjects at Brown University. Dr.…

Animals, Science/Nature

Sharks and Surveillance

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Sharks, like many people, dislike surveillance cameras: REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on Vimeo. In 2013, a team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution took a specially equipped REMUS “SharkCam” underwater vehicle to Guadalupe Island in Mexico to film great white sharks in the wild. They captured more…