1. What can be more intelligent than Wolbachia? This bacteria infects twenty percent of all insects. That's okay, but shockingly, in some hosts, it inserts its entire genome inside the infected host's developing egg cell, so that it passes on to the next generation- Not Exactly Rocket Science
2. Less than five hundred alive worldwide, the white-shouldered ibis survives with some help from small-scale farmers in Cambodia- Science Daily
3. Dolphins like to keep it short, same as we prefer the smaller words- EurekAlert
"Patterns of dolphin behaviour at the surface obey the same law of brevity as human language, with both seeking out the simplest and most efficient codes", Ramón Ferrer i Cancho, co-author of the study published in the journal Complexity and a researcher in the Department of Languages and IT Systems at the UPC, tells SINC.
4. Life could have come from the stars- thanks to the water in comets- EurekAlert!
5. Zebrafish is immune to the temptations of drugs- may be, it could help us understand the secrets of addiction- EurekAlert
6. Chimpanzees love music- an experiment reveals (they pulled a cord to listen to consonant music): BBC
7. Sockeye, a species of the Pacific Salmon, travels the farthest to spawn- they migrate from the west coast of North America as far as northern Russia and southern Japan!
8. The Singing Sands: Dunes on deserts make a deep roar, thanks to the grains of sand as they jostle for space-
Marco Polo, in his journeys through the dunes of china, said he was struck by “the sounds of all kinds of musical instruments”, and also “of drums and the clash of arms."
- Atlas Obscura
A recording of the singing sands is here: http://www.nymoon.com/pubs/desert/singingsand/
9. Ten Worst Designs in Wired Top Stories, one of which is
6 Shark-fetus teeth. A few shark species have live births (instead of laying eggs). The Jaws juniors grow teeth in the womb. The first sibling or two to mature sometimes eat their siblings in utero. Mmm ... siblings.
10. Baby born with two heads- "The heads have separate brains and spines, but share most other vital organs, including lungs and kidneys."- 5 Things - Salon.com
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