WTF, Scientific Papers?

[Moo-ving mountains: grazing agents drive terracette formation on steep hillslopes]

[The following observation proves that the voice of the quagga is very similar to the barking of a dog.

My grandson Peter aged 1 year and 4 months who was with me during the Warsaw Rising in 1944, certainly the smallest citizen able to imitate the voice of a zebra.

When asked: “How does the zebra cry?” he shouted in a funny “a — ha, a — ha, a — ha!”. Once, when we were indoors, we heard the barking of a spaniel in the street. To my astonishment little Peter began immediately to imitate the voice of the quagga. Since the child never had heard the barking of a dog the voice he heard now associated itself in his mind with the well-known notion of a zebra and an immediate reaction followed.

Fig. 3. The voice of the Chapman zebra noted by the author. (From A. RZĄŚNICKI, 1933).]

[Oh deer! Videography reveals a range of defensive behaviors against a cervid by a ground-nesting bird]

[Fig. 1. Two beavers are using different materials.]

[Crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside: evidence for vertebrate predation and recovery in the Mississippian blastoid Pentremites spicatus]

[A head of the curve: Bonnethead shark (Sphyrna tiburo) cephalofoil morphology and trophic ecology]

[FIG. 5. Coiling radius R vs. Ed^2/ρg for lugworm feces (blue), pea dough (red), rice noodles (black) and spaghetti (green). Error bars for the data point with the maximum error in R are shown for each of the four materials. The black line is the theoretical prediction R = 0.70(Ed^2/ρg)^(1/3).]

Coiling of lugworm feces reveals universal mechanics for the shape of poo

[You should look a gift ungulate in the mouth: Using 2D occlusal cheek tooth morphology to study the evolution of molarization in ungulates]

[Flipping plankton]

[The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research]

[The Smoking Penalty: Distributive Justice or Smokism?]

[Solenostomus snuffleupagus sp. nov., a hairy ghost pipefish (Teleostei: Solenostomidae) from the Southwest Pacific, with an integrative comparison to S. paegnius]

[Fig. 1. Reproduction of the woodcut of the Caracara from Marcgrave (1648).]

[It is a virtual caricature of a bird of prey.]

[Overcoming a ‘Clamity’: SWOT Analysis Uncovers Priorities to Improve Giant Clam Conservation in Southeast Asia]

[The Poison Pen: How Confident Are We About Iocane?

Samuel J Stellpflug, Jon B Cole, Eric J Lavonas]

[Please note that the authors of this Poison Pen do not have personal concerns with iocane exposure as we used our heartbroken years on a pirate ship to build up immunity to the poison on the off chance we might be presented down the road with a battle of wits to the death with a Sicilian who has kidnapped our long lost loves.]