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I love gators!

The oil spill in the gulf has me thinking about gators. Have you ever been to a restaurant in New Orleans and enjoyed the tasty alligator selections on the menu? If not, you are missing out. Although I...

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Ele-Comm: Short for Elephant Communication

Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell is a Stanford University professor whose research focuses on how elephant vocalizations travel through the ground for great distances, and how other elephants can understand...

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Feathers are Not Just for Flying

In a recent issue of Science magazine, researchers Li et al., were able to determine the plumage color of an extinct non-avian theropod dinosaur. This was possible due to the presence of...

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Bird Breath

Birds are way cool. In this podcast from The American Physiological Society, Dr. John West at the University of California in San Diego discusses the unique adaptations of the avian respiratory system....

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Marmots Benefit from Climate Change?

In the spirit of discussing the effects of climate change, I thought it only appropriate to mention the findings of a recent article by Ozgul et al., published in Nature. The findings of this...

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If only people were so friendly… Penguins

I just watched a re-run of the movie March of the Penguins…so cute! The movie documents how emperor penguins survive their long winter fast while incubating eggs. In fact, researchers have shown that...

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Live fast, die young

One theory of aging holds that accumulation of reactive oxygen species from aerobic metabolism damages nucleotides, proteins and lipids. Therefore, animals with a higher metabolism (poor mice) would be...

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What Hibernating Animals Can Teach Humans

Courtesy of Hannah CareyProgram Director, Physiological and Structural Systems Punxsutawney Phil is best known for his ability to “forecast” whether there will be six more weeks of winter each year....

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Galloping Horses

Who doesn’t love horses? I was just reading a fascinating archived press release from The American Physiological Society about these icons of all western movies. Researchers John Hermanson, Norm...

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Experimental Biology 2011- Comparative Physiology of Brown Adipose Tissue

You may recall the previous post on the seminar that I attended on Comparative Physiology of Brown Adipose Tissue at the Experimental Biology meeting last week. Here are some of the comparative...

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