by Liz Kalaugher, Matin Durrani
Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life by Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher The principles of physics lie behind many of the ways animals go about their daily lives. Scientists have discovered that the way cats and dogs lap up liquids can be explained by the laws of surface tension, how ants navig...
Abandoned at 85% (page 249 of 294). Thinking about this book makes me angry. Trying to read it made me even angrier, so I'm not going to bother with the rest of it even though it's less than 50 pages. The interesting things about animals mentioned in this book could be fit on maybe five pages; t...
... but I'm at the point where I basically celebrate any Flat Book Society group read that actually makes a serious effort to deliver (popular) science content without authorial grandstanding, fashion commentary and similar distractions -- and notwithstanding a few silly jokes too many, this book ce...
Well, I finished it, and I got lousy about doing status updates, but it's all Chapter 3s fault: the bit about cats drinking water had me wanting to post an Easter-cat video of her drinking from the tap/faucet in slow motion. But apparently BookLikes doesn't like embedding any video that isn't YouT...
TITLE: Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life AUTHOR: Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher DATE PUBLISHED: 2017 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-1-4729-1411-8 _____________________________________ FIRST READ: 2018/04/07 RE-READ: 2019/03/22 _____________________________________ Furry Logic i...
If the cuckoo egg hatches first, the early-bird chick pushes its rival eggs out of the nest. Now it can catch the worm – it’s won the undivided attention of its new foster-parents. And if the cuckoo emerges after the host bird’s chicks, it shoves its step-brothers and sisters over the edge to their ...
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