Intelligent Life

Life wants to perpetuate itself, and keeps its eggs in every basket:

1. This might seem dumb to you and me- but this is what life is about- survival

"Dutch biologists tracking a lion found him and a collared female lion both feeding on a newly killed Western hartebeest antelope. As Schoe's vehicle approached, both lions fled into nearby thicket where they remained hidden until the researchers left... Around 5pm that afternoon, the researchers returned to the site of the kill. As they arrived, they encountered several local villagers, who also ran away and hid in the bush."

-Daily Rotten

2. Troy:

via Telegraph

3. Stegosaurus carving in the temple of Angkor Wat:

- via atlas obscura

How could the 12th century sculptors have known of the existence of this dinosaur?

4. Lucy is the largest known diamond in the world- '2,500 miles across, approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.'

via Nonoscience

-A chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

5. Wisdom of the crowd: Ants are more intelligent than humans- because they don't have choices- Science Daily

6. Eye-shaped galaxy with a black hole for Iris:

via Wired Science

7. "Willow plays dead when she sees the word 'bang', stretches a paw in the air when she sees 'wave' and gets up on her back feet to beg when she sees the words 'sit up'."- Woman teaches dog to read- Ananova

8. "Most victims never feel a thing and the bite itself is superficial"- Vampire Bats turn to
humans- National Geographic

9. Unlike people, Apes struggle to innovate: "...chimps focus on the outcome of a demonstration – a cracked nut – rather than the bodily actions that produce the treat. Yet humans imitate the sequence of body movements: raising a stone or hammer above their shoulder before slamming it down. This difference, Tennie argues, helps humans learn feats they never would have come up with, left to their own devices"- New Scientist

10. And finally, ejaculating every day for seven days a week improves sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage- www.eshre.com

What did I say? Life wants to get around and perpetuate itself.