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I am curious about how things work and I like writing about what I learn. I have a series of ongoing posts about ants. Other animals appear from time to time.

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@zycr22 Nov 30, 2017, 8:05 AM UTC

Do dolphins drown in water?

I have been meaning to write about the sleeping habits of dolphins and frigatebirds since my last post on the sleeping habits of mallard ducks. The original plan was to talk about the sleeping habits…

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@zycr22 Nov 24, 2017, 6:52 AM UTC

The art of staying half-awake: unihemispheric sleep keeps ducks (and humans) safe

Imagine being able to fall asleep with half of your brain while the other half still functions. Wouldn’t that be interesting! Several animals seem to be capable of doing this, and even human beings h…

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@zycr22 Nov 17, 2017, 4:38 AM UTC

The dreams of an ant, or Why everybody needs to sleep well

I have not posted anything for a whole week, mostly because I have had to meet some deadlines at work. Apart from a pause from all social media and writing, deadlines have one other important effect…

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@zycr22 Nov 10, 2017, 3:48 AM UTC

Agriculture in the ant colonies: a story of evolution, mutualism, and antibiotics

I have been writing about bats for a while and I had also stopped reading the book on ants for a week. I picked it up again this week and started reading the Economics of Ant Society, and came across…

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@zycr22 Nov 9, 2017, 12:33 AM UTC

On the bats dying around us

In my last post on bats, I talked about how these animals can spread dangerous diseases among humans. This post is also about diseases, but the victims in this story are the bats. Millions of bats. #…

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@zycr22 Nov 3, 2017, 8:39 AM UTC

Bats, diseases, and the Ebola epidemic

After discussing in length about how wonderful bats are for our agriculture and for our forests, in my last post, I hinted at the fact that they also carry diseases that are sometimes lethal when tra…

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@zycr22 Oct 31, 2017, 8:48 PM UTC

Appreciating Bats Part 2: Insect-eating bats save our crops

In my last post on bats, I talked about how these animals are useful pollinators in our agricultural fields as well as in the wild. In this post, I am going to talk about how insectivorous bats play…

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@zycr22 Oct 29, 2017, 7:58 AM UTC

Appreciating Bats Part 1: Cross pollination and tequila plants

Fair warning: This is not a post about ants. I have been reading quite a few articles about bats recently, mostly because it is the last week of October, and is thus the Bat Appreciation Week. So I t…

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@zycr22 Oct 27, 2017, 7:33 AM UTC

Con artists among the ants: deceptive beetles and convergent evolution

# Getting the Greek straight This post is about an intriguing phenomenon called myrmecophily, which, if you go into the Greek roots of the word, means “ant-love.” Now that can be a misleading piece o…

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@zycr22 Oct 23, 2017, 7:01 AM UTC

Not so busy ants and the Pareto principle

This weekend, I went through the chapter called Ants at work: maids, nannies, laborers, soldiers in the book by Jae Choe that I have mentioned in previous posts. Here, the text explains how ants work…

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