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Posts on ‘August 2nd, 2010’

How Anteaters Decide

Jason Goldman pens an excellent review of Anteater Culinary Science: Overall, three major variables emerge that seem to govern the feeding decisions of giant anteaters: (1) the type of soldier-based defense (chemical warfare is way more effective), (2) the type of mound structure used, and (3) the nutritional value.

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Monday Night Mystery: A Queen’s Colors

Tonight’s mystery has plenty of buzz. Will you bee all you can bee? Or will you succumb to the sting of defeat? Honey, here’s the challenge. What’s up with the color of that bee-yootiful queen? Five points for explaining what the blue of her paint mark means, and five more for explaining why her body [...]

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