Abstaining Blue Footed Boobies Get Sexier
Now this is a new angle on abstinence, at least, in the kingdom. Male blue-footed boobies who abstain from sex for a year develop a brighter, more attractive shade of blue in their feet.
From our friends at National Geographic:
A new study shows that while attractiveness of the blue feet diminishes with age in males that reproduce each year, if males skip a breeding season and dont mate, they displayed a more attractive foot color and had more green chroma....
They concluded that its likely the sabbaticals from reproducing offspring may allow the male boobies to physically recover and display brighter feet in their quest in finding a mate.
It's the car show here in town and we are having a half dozen auto journalists over to dinner. We are ordering in barbeque, so I don't have to cook, but I am grumpily not looking forward to strangers invading my home, even though all auto journalists I have met tend to be entertaining and good sorts of people.
On the plus side: BBQ!
Dude, on the plus side: auto journalists!
Dude, on the plus side: auto journalists!
I'm gonna have to go with BBQ in this instance. You can have all my auto journalists, though.
Tonight, federal and Illinois officials will begin poisoning a section of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal in the hope of killing the invasive carp that may have moved north of an electric barrier designed to keep them out of Lake Michigan.
I thought they'd found Asian carp DNA on the electric barrier and that none of the fish had been seen beyond it.
Buffistas! I have been in a Mood all day, but I need to snap out of it so I can be enthusiastic and engaging when I interview a prospective Rice student in an hour. Give me mood-enhancing Internet material!
Abstaining Blue Footed Boobies Get Sexier
I'd be the circa 1960 Brigite Bardot of the Blue Footed Boobie world.
Dude, on the plus side: auto journalists!
You could show them your new lightning trick!
The journalists get BBQ AND Scrappy. I think they win!
I'm in a Mood. I don't know why. Today was a good day. Got to talk shop with the mission office guy and got lots of compliments and got to compliment a lot of people. Had an extended hilarious banter session with my favorite platonic geek crush (his dry wit and delivery remind me a lot of Allyson.) Got some tedious crap cleared off my plate. Swam 2000 yds and it was good. So why MOOD?!
