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Shrew loo
In the mountains of Borneo, the pitcher plant Nepenthes lowii sports traps shaped like broad toilet bowls with lids agape. Now, in a tidy twist,...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Landing pad for pollinators
The petals of most flowers are covered with cells in the unusual shape of cones, the pointy ends jutting up. But why? Researchers in England have...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Rising stars
Climate change will deal clams, mussels, and other marine bivalves a double whammy. Biologists already expect them to have trouble making their...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Trilobite togetherness
Seeking safety in numbers is an age-old maneuver--at least 465 million years old, it turns out. Ordovician-period fossils discovered in Portugal...
Natural History, 09/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Fireproofing for a flame
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To beguile females, some males build mansions, others build bowers. Male great bowerbirds...
Natural History, 06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Special-occasion dress
Caecilians are legless tropical amphibians that live mostly underground. Yet some of them sport bright stripes or solids in shades of yellow, pink,...
Natural History, 06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Botanic mechanics
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The seeds of many grasses are remarkable little mechanical devices. Each seed's hull has one or...
Natural History, 06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Mum's the word
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When baby rhesus monkeys want to suckle, they do what human infants do: cry, cry, cry. Mothers...
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Aphid sandbag brigade
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Social aphids have a soldier caste whose recruits may tackle civic projects as well as military...
Natural History, 06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication -
Misaligned by power lines
To aesthetes, high-voltage power lines are a blight on the rural landscape. But zoologists at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany welcome...
Natural History, 06/01/09 by Stephan Reebs · More from publication
