Posts tagged animals
The Science Library
Finding and linking to the amazing things in this Universe
Hug a Squirrel day? Yesterday was Squirrel Appreciation Day, and it was also National Hug Day, so I tried to hug a squirrel. WHAT WENT WRONG?
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Today is World Tapir Day!
Don’t celebrate too hard. Found this via Boing Boing.
Scanning for zebras
StripeSpotter is an automatic individual animal identification system for animals with prominent stripes or patches, developed as a joint project between the Computational Population Biology laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Equid Research and Conservation laboratory at Princeton University. It is intended to be used to identify animals in the wild, and to build biometric databases using photographs taken in the field. We are currently using it to build a zebra-print database for Plains and Grevys zebra in Kenya.
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