Chimp trivia
Courtesy of Jon Cohen in Science (“The Chimpanzee Genome Project’s Seedy Origins”), a detail that I hadn’t heard before:
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Sports testing metaphors of questionable taste
From the New York Times story about Caster Semenya, “Gender Test After a Gold-Medal Finish”:
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, VIII
In an otherwise very interesting story about the mechanism of behavioral dimorphism in fruit fly mating:
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, VII
Not exactly a metaphor, but certainly of questionable taste in this story titled, "'Sex Pest' Seal Attacks Penguin":
Animal metaphors of questionable taste: ventro-ventral gorillas
The National Geographic story about gorillas mating in the missionary position is one of those unique science stories: it's full of lines that sound innocuo...
Questionable animal metaphors: monkey outsourcing
So, a monkey in North Carolina was controlling a robot in Japan, using only its brain waves.
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, IV
In a LiveScience article about how capuchin monkeys wash their hands and feet in urine:
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, III
In a press release about the successful application of green bottlefly larvae to cure (by chewing on) foot ulcers in diabetic patients, by University of Man...
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, II
From a Carl Zimmer story about the incredibly long phalluses of certain ducks:
Animal metaphors of questionable taste, volume 1
From a story titled, "Porn sparks panda baby boom in China":