electron zoo

Before going on, I just want to point out that I am not one of those bloggers that posts links to other blogs all the time. I don’t even read a lot of ‘em. But anyway …

One of the Yahoo! Picks this week was a link to Planet Dan’s Senior Photo Collection, which was pretty cool. I followed his link to his blog and really enjoyed reading a post about a few new bipedal animal celebrities.

I remember when I took an anthropology class in college about human evolution, I was very impressed with the behavior and biology of bonobos. In the analogy in which humans are “the Third Chimpanzee”, bonobos are the second. They sometimes walk upright, which is interesting when studying primate locomotion, but what really interested me about them was their behavior. They are lovers, not warriors. They have a lot of sex, sometimes even homosexual sex, and they really don’t fight often. It’s nice to know that at least some primates know how to live