Category Archives: Animal Facts

Anthrozoology

Anthrozoology is the study of the relationships between humans and animals.
Anthrozoology is unique in that it studies the role of animals in the lives of humans, and vice versa. It has been called many other things, including “human animal interaction”, and the “human animal bond”.
The term Anthrozoology comes from the Greek anthropos , meaning human, [...]

Animal Senses and Binocular Vision

Here are two websites talking about animal senses and Binocular Vision ,which I found when working on observation space…
sorry for late posting!

cow power - the cruder version

Hi friends,
Here’s the cruder version of Mari’s cow power article.
Just the straight facts
 
idette

Tapping Into What a Deer Sees, and Doesn’t

Following are excerpts from a NYTimes article:
“Approximately 30,000 years after hunters took to adorning cave walls with their image of a deer, it occurred to them it might be more productive to consider the deer’s image of a hunter.

For now, thanks to decades of research into ungulate vision combined with the latest in military concealment [...]

Birds landing on different coloured shells.

I found the link for the west8 project Mari mentioned today in the pin-up. There are some great images and projects on thier website that really relate to our exploration in public space for this project.
Check it out.
here

Mama Turtle

photo courtesy of Christian Kliegel
On Sunday September 7, 2008 Christian Kliegel spotted a turtle digging a hole. After telling me about it we returned to the site and were amazed to witness the turtle laying her eggs.
The Western Painted Turtle commonly lays her batch of eggs in June or July either at dawn or dusk. [...]