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This Tiny Primate Communicates Secretly in Ultrasound
The Philippine tarsier, a small nocturnal animal, has the world’s highest pitched primate vocalization ever documented.
Picture: Eric Rossicci / www.westcoastphotoart.com
Daredevil to Plunge From Outer Space
After some minor speed bumps, Daredevil adventurer Felix Baumgartner’s plans to plunge 23 miles from the edge of space back to Earth — a Red Bull-sponsored stunt that would be the world’s highest freefall — is finally coming to fruition, the team announced.
This African ground squirrel had a fight on his paws when some hungry birds spotted him with a tasty snack. The feisty squirrel clamped down on the biscuit during the tug-of-war in Etosha National Park, Namibia. The struggle was caught on camera by photographer Ignacio Yufera. Picture: Ignacio Yufera/FLPA/solent
Candy-Coated Frogs Carry Deadly Kick
The skin of Madagascar poison frogs contains the sugar sucrose — the first known case of sucrose produced by an animal, and not a plant.
A Portrait of Saturn’s Hazy Moon
more on Titan here
(via allcreatures)
A Sublime Springtime for Martian Dunes
Steep-sloped dunes in Mars’ north polar region are etched with dark streaks and circular bull’s-eye blotches in this image from the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, part of the recent PDS release of over 400 new images acquired in 2011.
Vultures squabble for food at a ‘vulture restaurant’ in Nawalparasi, Nepal. The diner was established in 2006 to provide wild vultures a healthy meal, in a drive to boost the population of a species that is endangered in Nepal. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
Manners, please.
Flocks of snowy owls have been winging down from the Arctic into the American south this winter, in a bizarre mass migration that Denver Holt, head of the Owl Research Institute in Montana, calls ‘unbelievable’. Photograph: Reuters/US Fish & Wildlife Service
