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  A Deeper Look into Adenovirus-36 and Obesity [Aetiology] This is the fifth of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease . By Whitney Baker My previous blog post examined the idea of an infectious etiology for obesity by a group of possible infectious agents. While these pathogens have been associated with... Posted Apr 16 2008, 06:00 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: animals, blog, pathogens, chronic disease, causative role, infectious etiology, human obesity, infectious agents

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  Sand dollars avoid predators by cloning themselves [Not Exactly Rocket Science] Many animals have cunning ways of hiding from predators. But the larva of the sand dollar takes that to an extreme - it avoids being spotted by splitting itself into two identical clones. Sand dollars are members of a group of animals called echinoderms... Posted Mar 13 2008, 12:01 PM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: animals, predator, mucus, predators, larva, hungry fish, bud, seawater, sand dollar, sand dollars, university of washington, clones, sea floor, sedate life, dawn vaughan, sea urchins, pluteus, dover sole, echinoderms, larvae

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  Photo of the Day #180: Flehmen Response [Laelaps] In the above photograph a female Amur tiger ( Panthera tigris altaica ) named "Torrie" displays a flehmen response; she was sniffing the scat of another tiger in the enclosure and repeatedly made this face. As silly as it looks, this type of... Posted Mar 05 2008, 04:20 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: animals, photograph, vomeronasal, natural chemicals, tigers, tiger panthera tigris, zoom, grimace, flehmen response, panthera tigris altaica, jacobson, tiger, scat

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  Color-Changing Rabbits and Photoperiodism [Of Two Minds] Looking outside my window, across the snow-cover vista otherwise known as Ann Arbor, it amazes me that anything can live (or, even thrive) in such a frozen environment. Since I was a kid I was fascinated with animals, such as the snowshoe hare , that... Posted Mar 04 2008, 06:00 AM by ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Feeds Filed under: animals, predators, drastic change, looking outside my window, ann arbor, biological changes, cues, snowshoe hare, snow cover, camouflage, brown fur, ears