Wild Things:
Life as We Know It
Dinosaur gangs, psychedelic fish and long-distance elephant calls
- By Amanda Bensen, Joseph Caputo, T.A. Frail, Megan Gambino and Sarah Zielinski
- Smithsonian magazine, May 2009
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(Joe Tobias)
Observed
Name: The Peruvian warbling antbird, Hypocnemis peruviana.
Two's Company: Antbirds live in pairs. They defend their territories from other antbirds by singing complex duets to signal their combined strength.
Three's Trouble: But when an unattached female enters a pair's territory, you can forget about such harmony, a study from the University of Oxford says. Once the male starts warbling, his partner launches into a song that interferes with his—a clear attempt, the researchers say, to ruin any overture to the unattached female.
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Comments (3)
My wife and I work at the Georgia State Archives, while there I came across an article in the May 2009 issue of the Smithsonian Magazine, the article mentioned that stone tools were found with animal proteins detected on the tools. Along with camel, bear, and sheep proteins there were horse proteins, and it was my understanding that horse's did not exist on this continent until they were brought here by the Spanish. If the horse was on this contenent when did they disappear, and could they have been used as beasts of burden by the people living in the area? I realize they were probably smaller than the burros of today and much smaller than todays horse, but just how big were they. Thank you Ben Carrigan
Posted by Ben Carrigan on November 2,2009 | 06:31 PM
what an odd fish, its just so weird.
Posted by Avery on May 11,2009 | 05:25 PM
Just another amazing thing about elephants! The more we learn, the more amazing they seem!
Posted by Denise Mathews on April 21,2009 | 12:41 AM