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POPSIs it so different? "After the female deposits her unfertilized eggs into the male, the outer shell of the eggs breaks down, and tissue from the male grows up around the eggs in the pouch. After fertilizing the eggs, the male closely controls the prenatal environment of the embryos in his pouch. The male keeps blood flowing around the embryos, controls the salt concentrations in the pouch, and provides oxygen and nutrition to the developing offspring through a placenta-like structure until he gives birth." " in some species of pipefish, the sex roles are reversed because males become pregnant and there is limited brood pouch space. So females compete for access to available males, and thus secondary sex traits (such as brightly colored ornamentation) evolve in female pipefish instead of males."
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POPSColossal squid was 'lethargic blob' So they caught one squid, and now they think all squid are the same. Giant Squid don't travel as well on the surface. If it was getting shorter, I wonder how big she was before she started to brood?.
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POPS?Bird Brains? I've had a dog come up to me from out of no where with porcupine quills in his nose. I was playing guitar when he came up and layed his nose on my knees. I had a friend get the needle nose pliers out of my truck and the dog sat there, whimpering a little, while I plucked them out one by one. As soon as I plucked the last quill from his snout he turned around and took off.
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POPSBee Disease Still A Mystery, Despite New Advances Entomologists are studying the reasons behind an enormous bee die off happening across the country. They call it Colony Collapse Disorder, and if they cannot find a solution the 80% of fruits and vegetables that require pollination may not make it to market.
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POPSMother duck's 'bird brain' saves ducklings But the duck, a female (he thinks it was a mallard), wasn't about to give up that easily. Making sure she still had Petersen's eye, she waddled up the road about 20 metres and lay on a storm sewer grate. Petersen watched and thought nothing of it. "But when I started walking again, she did the same thing. She ran around and grabbed me again." It became obvious to him then that something was up. So when she waddled off to the sewer grate a second time, Petersen decided to follow. "I went up to where the duck was lying and saw eight little babies in the water below. They had fallen down between the grates."
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POPSWe are family, all my little kitties and me... Grade AA, extra-large kitties. Excellent scrambled or over easy: Clucker watches over two of of four kittens born to the henhouse cat on a farm in Assaria, Kan. The cat nurses the brood, but when she's off roaming, Clucker's maternal instincts kick in, and she sits on the kittens to keep them warm.
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POPSHow to Brood Tom Chiarella might be my favorite author to clip, not only because of the originality of his topics but because of his pithy, honest terseness and his wry approach to modern life. Now pardon me while I mull over what all this implies about me, Clipmarks, and the entire history of humanity alone in a corner somewhere.... Some people are smart. They stay away. You might call this respect. Others are pathological in their worry. "Why so glum?" they ask. Or "How you doing, big guy?" And just because they won't honor my need to be alone in public, to stretch around inside the muscle of my worry, or respect the fact that a smile is sometimes just a tiresome, mawkish mask, I flat-out lie. I tell them I'm doing fine. Jim Dandy. Then I smile and wait for a good moment to turn back to my troubles -- which now include the fact that some jackass thinks it's okay to call me "big guy."
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POPS Does Birth Order Matter? I am the last born in my family and I must say the order is reversed here. Not to say I am an uber-citizen of the Major Ganglion Club. But the IQ numbers in my brood were destined to rise from the start.
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