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		<title>Getting Cute at Disneyland</title>
		<link>http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2011/12/21/getting-cute-at-disneyland/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=getting-cute-at-disneyland</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The principles from Lorenz&#8217;s and Gould&#8217;s work have been applied to everything from vehicle design to this assessment of how cute NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Spirit is,&#8230;to pretzels. Applied to animals, they suggest our attitude, affection, concern, and the general way we treat species will be influenced by how closely each resembles a human child &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Attenborough &#8211; Darwin Lecture 2011, &#8216;Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I joined the 2011 Darwin Lecture, with Sir David Attenborough speaking on &#8216;Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise&#8217;,  organised and hosted by the Royal Society of Medicine in association with the Linnean Society of London. Fresh back from a trip to Borneo &#8211; no less, the spritely 85-year-old was introduced by Professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ducks per Second: A Most Useful Unit of Velocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lived in the Midlands of the UK, away from the bussle of London&#8217;s controlled airspace, one of my pleasures on an evening was to hire a light aircraft at my local airfield and tootle off for an hour or so practicing maneoveurs and generally enjoying the sunset &#8211; all very peaceful. Except, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cygnets and Swan Necks &#8211; a Case of Lead Poisoning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the new arrivals.  At a pool close to where I live in the south of England, I&#8217;ve been following the progress of these cygnets since their birth five weeks ago; the  picture and the video were taken about a week after hatching. The same breeding pair has built a nest in the same spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waddle you make of this?  Mallard has 16 chicks.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Royal Society for the Protection of birds (RSPB) says: &#8220;the normal clutch size for mallard is 12 eggs, laid at one to two day intervals.&#8221; Which makes the mother of this 16 strong brood paddling past our appartment yesterday something of a dynamic duck. I&#8217;ve heard the record is 21 &#8211; so she still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giraffe Feeding Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are just fun.  Giraffe feeding time at Santa Barbara Zoo. Photos copyright Tim Jones. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas RATions for a Frolicking Fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the turkey &#8211; RATS are the Christmas treat for this ravenous reynard. I caught this juvenile fox in the garden this Christmas Eve morning enjoying a little pre-lunch entertainment courtesy of an unfortunate rodent.  Very similar to watching a cat play with a mouse.  Here&#8217;s the series: Of related interest&#8230; Post by Ed Yong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds of Southern California</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all of them, you understand.  But here&#8217;s a few I&#8217;ve snapped in and around Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Francisco on visits over the year.]]></description>
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		<title>A Web of Intrigue</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got up yesterday morning at what for me is quite an early hour &#8211; 6.30ish.  So with no CSI on the box at that time, I chose the healthy option and went for a walk in the park.  Where I took this picture: That&#8217;s only kind of true.  What I actually took was this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes of Muybridge &#8211; Photographic Pioneer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do the four jackdaws taking off across the left-right diagonal here remind you of anything? For me, the regular spacing and apparent connected motion of the birds is reminiscent of  the work of nineteenth century photography pioneer, Eadweard Muybridge. Born in 1830, Muybridge photographed many sequences of birds in flight like the one below.  But [...]]]></description>
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