links adspar likes 8 (biological edition)

Here is the 8th installment of a recurring feature, creatively titled links adspar likes. These should keep you busy with good reading material while you're bored at work, and it makes me feel productive because most of the links are educational and/or thought-provoking.

This is the biological edition of links adspar likes.



How Global Warming Disrupts Biological Communities - a Chronobiological Perspective
by A Blog Around the Clock

adspar's quick summary:
Several examples of animals, mostly birds, whose behavior patterns have been altered by global warming.

why you should read it:
The Pizzlie: polar bear/grizzlie hybrid. Wow.


The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
by Chucky D

adspar's quick summary:
pretty self-explanitory

why you should read it:
Dude, Darwin!


Elephants Gone Wild
by Jonah Lehrer

adspar's quick summary:
This is mostly just a link to a NYTimes piece about how elephants are going crazy and killing and raping rhinoceroses. Yes, you read that right.

why you should read it:
Stress makes animals do weird things.


That's all for links adspar likes 8 (biological edition). Just a quicky to get some links off my massively growing list of links to blog about. Links here. Preview of future links here.