The Geecologist

Playground

Playground

Nov 2, 2024 | Fiction | 0 comments

If you want to make something smarter, teach it to play. No one denied the play of mammals. A giant oceanic manta ray brain was the largest and heaviest of any animal that breathed water. The telencephalon and cerebellum – parts of the brain devoted in mammals...
The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

Jan 26, 2013 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

The Dyaks all declare that the Mias [Orangutan] is never attacked by any animal in the forest, with two rare exceptions; and the accounts I received of them are so curious that I give them nearly in the words of my informants, old Dyak chiefs, who had lived all their...