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Tomorrow I will have no voice.
GO DAWGS! WOOF!
GO DAWGS! WOOF!
my true love gave to me:
MY true love gave to ME tickets to the Peach Bowl where my alma mater (Washington Huskies) will be playing his alma mater (Alabama Crimson Tide) in the College Football Semifinals!
my true love gave to me:
my true love gave to me:
my true love gave to me:
my true love gave to me:
my true love gave to me:
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! For the next 12 days, I will be going through the 12 Day of Christmas, a tradition celebrated in Europe since the middle ages. We all know the song, but I bet most of us have no idea what those 12 days actually are. No, it's not just a song about someone frivilously purchasing their true love gifts for 12 days, it's a series of Christian celebrations leading up to the Twelfth Night (a party making the end of medieval "winter" (All Hallow's Eve to Twelfth Night), not the comedy by William Shakespeare - although the play was likely written as entertainment for said celebration). So, without further adieu... On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Wallis is a very special addition to the Park’s rhino family. She is as part of the Park's White Rhino breeding program planned to be a surrogate for the critically endangered Northern White Rhino whose only remaining females are all too old to breed.
A few days ago, pandas at the Toronto Zoo took full advantage of the cold weather having a BLAST playing in the snow! Giant pandas are from the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in the Min Mountains and Qinling Mountains of the Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, where it often snows in the winter months. The pandas in Canada feel right at home in the cold. While the San Diego Pandas don't get any naturally cold weather, they do get a special delivery of snow a couple times a year and they know just what to do when it arrives!
This is another shining example of why I love Texas A&M University. Last week, many Aggies were up in arms about alt-right proponent, Richard B. Spencer, coming to our campus to speak and I think the University handled the situation with class. As not to impede anyone's First Amendment rights, they still allowed the speech to take place but offered an uplifting, University-sponsored alternative for those on campus, Aggies United. This event was not just something else to attend but a way to show how we are adamantly against what Spencer stands for. And, on December 6, 2016, Aggies came together to show what we stand for: Diversity, Excellence, Integrity, Leadership, Loyalty, Respect & Selfless Service.
While the protests were still what primarily took over coverage on CNN, I am proud that the Aggies put forth something centered around unity and not hatred, putting a positive spin on an event that, on its own, would otherwise draw so much negativity. (Unfortunately, in the media, negativity usually gets more airtime than positivity. While Aggies United didn't receive a lot of coverage itself, it's presence helped keep even more negative coverage at bay.)
I wasn’t able to attend Aggies United in person but I was able to take part by streaming most of it live. It was pretty impressive how so many Aggies pulled together against hatred and I can honestly say, I am a proud Aggie.
Look what I found!!!
Thank you Claire, for getting me to look at my long forgotten MySpace page that I can't even log into.
The social nature of the lion may be more beneficial than just having someone around to groom the tough spots.
How did ALL the species do throughout the whole study?
So, the more social the carnivore, the better they were at solving the puzzle. Other studies have found that across unrelated species, brain size has more to do with the ability to problem solve than social structure, but this study seems to suggest that in species that are more closely related (the Pathera genus is estimated to have a divergence time of only 3-4 million year ago), social stucture may be a factor in how well you're able to problem solve. Citation: Borrego N, Gaines M. Social carnivores outperform asocial carnivores on an innovative problem. Anim Behav. 2016;114:21–6.
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