{"id":5213,"date":"2014-09-23T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2014-09-09T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:18:12","slug":"more-evolutionary-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/more-evolutionary-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"More evolutionary diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why is it pictures and stories about weird animals and animal behaviors is so fascinating to humans?\u00a0 I’m no exception, of course, and I will from time to time stare wide eyed at the weedy sea dragons webcam<\/a> as they drift slowly about in the water.\u00a0 Sea dragons<\/a> are curious things to look at and have evolved a fantastic camouflage that seems to impede their ability to do much more than float with the seaweed.<\/p>\n

\"Binturong<\/a>
Binturong in Overloon photo taken by Tassilo Rau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our star today is the Bearcat or binturong<\/a>.\u00a0 The Binturong not only has several visual characteristics of a cat, but also has similarly placed scent glands and comfort behaviors:\u00a0 grooming and sleeping curled up.\u00a0 It’s tail is prehensile, like many tree monkeys and is used to steady their slow but sure climbing in the trees.\u00a0 The Bearcat is not related to bears or cats or monkeys, nor is it related to the oninguito<\/a> or the red panda<\/a> which are also sometimes called bearcats or cat-bears.\u00a0 Instead, it shares a family with civets and genets.<\/p>\n

Oh, and, it smells like popcorn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is it pictures and stories about weird animals and animal behaviors is so fascinating to humans?\u00a0 I’m no exception, of course, and I will from time to time stare wide eyed at the weedy sea dragons webcam as they drift slowly about in the water.\u00a0 Sea dragons are curious things to look at and… Continue reading More evolutionary diversion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10509,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/the-prehistory-of-solar-panels\/","url_meta":{"origin":5213,"position":0},"title":"The prehistory of solar panels","author":"leems","date":"March 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"George Cove\u2019s third solar panel. 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