Dispensary Corner 23 Sep 11
September 23, 2011
SOME smells last a lifetime.
A study published in the journal
PLoS ONE, has found that
Humboldt penguins can track the
odour of their lifelong mates
within colonies of thousands.
The research is the first to show
that penguins use odour to
recognise genetic differences.
“Seafaring birds that travel long
distances in the ocean use odours
to find food and use odours to
recognise nests but we didn’t
know what odours or the extent
to which they could use odours
to recognise kin,” said study head
and biopsychologist at the
University of Chicago, Jill Mateo.
“Their sense of smell can help
them find their mates and perhaps
choose their mates,” she added.
POLITICIAN now claims the moon!
A moon rock collected during
the Apollo 17 mission in 1972,
which went mysteriously missing,
has reappeared in the most
unlikely of places, the paperwork
of former US President Bill Clinton.
The rock was gifted to the state
of Arkansas more than 30 years
ago, and was discovered after a
period of absence by a processor
who was going through some of
the 2000 boxes of material from
Clinton’s time as Arkansas
governor.
No one has any idea how the
rock got into the boxes, but it did
solve a state wide mystery.
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