I think it was Rene Descartes who, when writing about pseudo-intelligence in nature (when the word itself should really be reserved for more cerebral animals), used the bee as a paradigm.
Scorpions are enchanting because they are equipped with such sophisticated and acute mechano-sensory and...
Personification can be a misleading avenue for your fancy.
Albeit, the animals' behavior may be complex and fascinating, however. It is an organic robot imbued with intricate programming but not a sentient being. And that is part of what makes them great.
Leave it to democrats to conjure up more means of wasting peoples time and money. Democrats are always taking things away for absurd reasons. Luckily, I don't think this new one will manifest.
Not a problem, buthus. Your suspicion brings upon relevant conversation. I didn't mean to be excessively serious.
Now, one has every right to question the nature (i.e. element of danger) of Sicarius sp. simply because so little is known. That is fair. However, let's consider this from a...
This data is extrapolated from "The phylogenetic distribution of shingomyelinase D activity in venome of Haplogyne spiders", credit to Greta Binford and Michael Wells, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Univ. of Arizona>
As we all know, the bites from spiders in the genus...
That's rather slippery of you, buthus. Perhaps I was too colloquial with one of my written sentences. Let me rephrase myself; "I have happened upon written rumors concerning this spider, consisting of envenomations that have taken place in a third-world country". I cannot ascertain the...
I have heard accounts of victims of the Sicarius hahni requiring immediate amputation to save the life of the victim, but the toxicological research is scarce and hazy. What is known is that Siciarius sp. venom contains higher quantities of the amino acid sphingomyelinase D (juxtaposed with...
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