Time to get drunk and say inappropriate things to each other! Running Ponies might have the most patient readers ever, so thanks for sticking with us. The more you tell us, “Dude, I saw that story on National Geographic like six months ago…” the more punctual we’ll try to be with our content. Oh and [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 23, 2009
Lose the Coconut Shells, Veined Octopus. You’re Holding Everyone Up!
Researchers from the Museum of Victoria have stumbled across a rare case of invertebrate tool manipulation in Indonesian waters. While studying the delightful mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), biologists Dr Julian Finn and Dr Mark Norman observed the peculiar and complex behaviour of more than twenty veined octopuses (Amphioctopus marginatus) off the coasts of Northern Sulawesi [...]
December 20, 2009
Wandering Ponies #2
While my brain eases itself out of the haze of Christmas madness, here are some things that have amused me of late: It’s no secret that I’m a massive fan of Alex Wild’s photography, so I thought I should mention it here. What makes it so special is that the galleries are organised according to [...]
December 8, 2009
That’s No Way To Get A Girl, Brawny Dawson’s Bee.
Topping my list of things that stick in my craw about Australian TV right now is that we don’t get BBC’s new documentary series, Life. If we did, we’d know all about the unusual courtship behaviour of one of the largest species of bees in the world, the Australian Dawson’s bee (Amegilla dawsoni). Native to [...]
