[And how can you celebrate? By sending money, of course. Actually ... doesn't $55,000 sound like a piddling goal? Really? $55,000 to save an entire species? Time to reach for your wallets, fellow simians. I'm in for $55. SB SM] https://fundraise.gorillafund.org/worldgorilladay2022/ Helping People. Saving Gorillas START YOUR FUNDRAISER DONATE TODAY #WORLDGORILLADAY 2022 TOOLKIT WORLD GORILLA DAY... Continue Reading →
Published: August 31, 2022 12.40pm EDT in The Conversation theconversation.com Academic rigor, journalistic flair https://theconversation.com/ authors: Peter C. Kjærgaard Professor of Evolutionary History and Director, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen Mark Maslin Professor of Earth System Science, UCL Trine Kellberg Nielsen Associate Professor, Department of Archeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University Neanderthals... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yB51vdkZAE from SBs Steve & Beth (Post Island SBs) These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than meaning and sound. When pronounced differently, they are known as heteronyms. “The bandage was wound around his wound.“The farm was cultivated to produce produce.“The dump was so full that the workers... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 8 pm (EST) Join me at my Watch Party and chat with your fellow 'Backs and 'Belles My birthday is actually February 9, but I'm kicking it off with a Watch Party on 2/8/2022 at 8 pm (Eastern Standard Time). Here are the key facts: You must have an Amazon Prime accountThe... Continue Reading →
[This just in from SB Steve (Post Island SBs)] Ozzie is no longer with us in The Jungle Jan. 25, 2022, 9:50 PM EST / Updated Jan. 26, 2022, 12:29 AM EST By Tim Stelloh Ozzie, the world's oldest male gorilla, has died, Zoo Atlanta officials said Tuesday. He was 61. Ozzie, a western lowland silverback, was found dead... Continue Reading →
A moth species marks the solstice in a reliably procreative way. By Bryan Pfeiffer Updated December 18, 2021, 4:05 a.m. Published originally in the Boston Globe [Stick with it. This post gets downright pornographic at the end. Enjoy, you Silverback perverts. SB SM] Relatively few other insects have reason to be flying around New England in... Continue Reading →
Best of the 'Gest In a prior post on SD I openly declared my love for LiZiqi. She films many of these segments by herself, setting the camera in a fixed position, the moving into the frame. I find the finished product appealing and sensuous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3dv9NYrkUE Several SBs, knowing that I am happily married to... Continue Reading →
Did Dads Evolve? By Elizabeth Preston This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the very ordinary reason that he’s busy caring for his two young children. Among mammals, though, that makes him extraordinary. “Human fathers engage in... Continue Reading →
This is the 300th issue of Silverback Digest. Time to reflect on some of the happenings in The Jungle: We've toured around Ireland with Silverbelle Deb Learned to say "What's the craic?" from Blindboy And learned the difference between Bitcoin and Shitcoin from Silverback Kent We've seen Silverbelle Sandy try to hatch a giant pumpkin... Continue Reading →
David Attenborough is the real deal. If you are baffled by the Silverback concept, here's the personification. He's devoted his professional life to environmental journalism. His Planet Earth series contain some of the most stunning visual imagery ever captured on film. Now, at 94, he's come out with a documentary on his life and vision... Continue Reading →
