Genius

BBC sucks

One might even call it "Woonderful"...

This cute little guy!

Well, he's a professor of Particle Physics, and since everything is made up of particles, I suppose...

I think lemur conservation organisations are trying to do things to help improve education out in Madagascar. The Duke Lemur Center and the Lemur Conservation Foundation (both American lemur conservation places) are both doing some great work out in Madagascar with local Malagasy people. I bought an education pack from the LCF recently to look at the children’s books that were written for Malagasy children about lemurs. Try and find the books by Alison Jolly and Hantanirina Rasamimanana. The watercolour artwork is really nice. :) I recently bought some lemur dolls that are made in Madagascar and waiting for them to arrive. :)

+CrazyPangolinLady Oh gosh, I think aye-ayes are adorable. I love them! :3 And yep, they're primates. Their skeletal structure is similar to that of lemurs, although their rodent-like teeth has caused controversy about the classification.

there always cute

You can see their distant cousins on a night bus or working in Burger King.

So am i

Yes, all lemurs are primates! Aye-ayes are just amazing.

James Lyndon lool

Haaha

High-Aye

Comment of the year!!!

+wetherbizzle Right?! Honestly, this video made me really uncomfortable to watch with it sedated like that

Those people didn't just sedate it for the purpose of Brian Cox to fiddle around with it, they're a conservation team and put a radio on it, yes its unfortunate to see an animal sedated against its will but in the long run the team is dedicated to the species survival. Also the animal was taken back to its home afterwards.

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The oldest fossils of Animals have been found in South Australia, and were of Sponges (the most primitive animals). They date back to 665,000,000 BCE Plants are theorised to have first appeared around 1,000,000,000 BCE but fossils aren't really present until they colonised land, around 850,000,000 BCE, in Saudi Arabia. There's also Fungi, which are a distinct Kingdom, closer related to Animals than Plants (Surprising until you consider Sponges are Animals). Fungi fossils are incredbily rare but the oldest date back to 1,000,000,000 BCE, in Canada. So Animals near the South Pole, Fungi near the North Pole, Plants in the middle.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe Here's a Turkish ruin dating back to 11000 BCE

Madagasca - it's an awesome place, filled with species' that you will find nowhere else on the planet!

thank you just ive never seen one on tv or internet

Maddie fun You're welcome! The island was isolated for so, so long that it's native creatures evolved into their own specimens! Look it up, it's surreal!

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It’s quite rare. It’s only native to Madagascar in nature, and it’s an endangered species. They’re hunted quite often unfortunately

Oh man, you caught them out there! If God is an intelligent designer why did he put the wind pipe next to the food pipe (choking risk). And why did he put the vagina next to the anus (cancer risk)? And why does the human eye have a blind spot?

I think here he didn't explain it well. The Natural selection here meant that the 'Lemurs' that initially originated to Madagascar does not grew those long toes and sharp teeth due to mutation to adapt to conditions of life. Natural selection here means that the 'lemurs' that had these modifications survived and pass on its genes to its offspring. But, how only few had these modifications?Analogous to humans, not everyone looks the same. Some are tall and some are short. Some have long arms and different shape in teeth. Same principle apply here. Each members of a species is unique. Thats what he means here by genetic mutation within species that happens all the time. The minor changes that helps a species survive will be passed on to its offspring. The one doesn't have these modifications that help it to survive will die out.

That animal is fine it's just tranquilized

They are being tagged, tracked and protected in order to insure there survival and not becoming extinct.

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In walks the american

You miss out the point where mutations can be beneficiary to an animals survival. . . most of the time mutations which are not beneficial, or silent enough to go unnoticed through most of the prime of an animals life, do not make it past the first generation as the animal dies before being able to pass on the gene or the mutation is not favoured by selection of other members of the species. The mutations which are favourable for survival, or are silent through the majority of the animals prime however will get passed on. This process continues down generations causing multiple species around the world to adapt to their specific environments. Its not just 1 mutation that causes high specialisation. Mutations drive evolution, so in that sense - Yes, mutations do produce new species.

Read up on Peppered Moths - they're among the best recent examples of animals evolving to the modern industrialised world. The short version is during the 19th century they started mutating to be black rather than white, to blend in better with soot-covered trees and buildings. Insects reproduce exceptionally quickly so they're great examples of evolution. Viruses too. Where do you think the Brazilian, South African and British variations of COVID19 came from? Viruses reproduce even faster than insects, so they evolve to work around natural or manmade resistances. This is also why a vaccine isn't possible for the Flu or Common Cold.

Haven’t you heard of science love???? Most people have come out of the dark ages.

You're aware Tyson is from Manhattan, right?

128pagenovella NO ONE BEATS DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Neil Degrasse is a God, a black god of earth's intellectual achievements from all times.

128pagenovella This is the strangest racism I've ever seen.

128pagenovella​ You're the one who called Neil deGrasse Tyson a gorilla. Edit: And after parsing that last comment a little more carefully, I have revised my opinion. This is pretty much bog standard racism.