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Jeremijenko on Dipity.

I’ve started making the acquaintance of a herd of heifers on a farm I will call ‘VT Farm’. The ladies are a dynamic bunch and we are just starting to get to know each other. This interest  in profiling the individual personalities of heifers was partially inspired by the article ‘Exploring Stock Managers — Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production’ by Catherine Bertenshaw and Peter Rowlinson at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Newcastle University, UK which states; “On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was 258 liters higher than on farms where this was not the case (p < 0.001).” If interested, the full article can be downloaded from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/anthroz/2009/00000022/00000001/art00006. Individual attention and interpersonal relationships are known to be paramount to human development and well being, but their being recently proven as beneficial to the bovine species raises interest in other comparative behavioral studies. As human relationships have expanded and been augmented via the internet and social networking sites, cyberpsychology has emerged. Can these investigations be applied to cows? How might cows react to virtual attention? Does the behavioral psychology of social networking have something to teach …

ScienceDirect – Journal of Hazardous Materials : Hg(II) removal from water by chitosan and chitosan derivatives: A review.

woodducksection.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Adaptation to fairly rudimentary housing development … not only ducks but owls and otherscheck in …

Animations – Videos – The Earth Institute, Columbia University. speculations about thte animations of drought for instance …

Water research >> latest similar papers. a good thousand recent papers on water research .

ScienceDirect – Biological Conservation : Habitat selection of endangered and endemic large flying-foxes in Subic Bay, Philippines. use

ScienceDirect – Biological Conservation : Habitat selection of endangered and endemic large flying-foxes in Subic Bay, Philippines. another reason why we just need to explode the riparian zones … more better everywhere.

Grey-headed Flying Fox.
images showing the bat density on the trees. Strange fruit for a tree.

Flying Foxes Prefer to Forage in Farmland in a Tropical Dry Forest Landscape Mosaic in Fiji. Matthew Scott Luskin. 2009; Biotropica – Wiley InterScience.