MIT Physics Lecture: General Relativity – 02 – Questions You Were Afraid to Ask
juni 22, 2008 at 10:29 am (Fysik)
Tags: almen relativitet, Fysik
Science Daily- Not Only Dogs, But Deer, Monkeys And Birds Bark To Deal With ConflictBiologically speaking, many animals besides dogs bark, according to evolutionary biologists, but domestic dogs vocalize in this way much more than birds, deer, monkeys and other wild animals that use barks. The reason is related to dogs' 10,000-year history of hanging around human food refuse dumps, she suggests.
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