Animals

Leaders Of The Pack

The dog genome is in. I should be ‘Blogging the potential benefits for genetic research of our being able to compare a whole collection of small, genetically isolated populations, but you want to read about the weirdness. It turns out that some pure breeds are ancient, close relatives of the wolf. This particular subgroup includes […]

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Message From God

Yesterday, I and a colleague had a meeting at a large London teaching hospital. While we were waiting to go in we shared a room with an inflatable rhinoceros. Today, Jonathan [photo by Leasey] sends me this typically Sun-style story for my “blog thingy”. Knowing my luck, these events are telling me: “You are about […]

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“Mum, I’m Stuck!”

Marvin voice: Brain the size of a planet and all the readers want from me is pictures of pandas. No, Leasey, there is nothing “feminine” about my finding the badly-designed bears appealing. And as for Maoi, you can’t have a panda for your birthday, but you can have some panda wallpaper for your desktop. This […]

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Ahh

Am I going soft? I don’t normally do animal pictures, and pandas are such a biological mess that they seem to be a flesh-and-blood refutation of “intelligent design“, but the new panda born at San Diego Zoo is just absurdly cute.

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Heart-Shaped Tag

It’s the question every divorcing couple must ask: “Who gets the Beanie Babies?”. The answer: someone on Ebay. [I recommend you read the whole of the seller’s description to enjoy this surreal slice of Internet life fully.]

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