remember, tuesday is soylent green day
When I Googled "Soylent Green," it didn't say it was made of people!
Some relatively cheery input this week:
It is a new kind of wildlife media: stories and photos capturing the daily drama of chimpanzee life, appearing five days a week on the web. Fans say the entries are like a soap opera about wild chimpanzees.
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JGI launched the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog in January 2006 with daily updates from field researcher Emily Wroblewski, who is studying paternity among the chimpanzees. Her entries give us a glimpse of the delights and rigors of chimpanzee field research and an ongoing view of the research program begun by Jane Goodall in 1960. Emily is trying to determine if paternal relatives treat each other in special ways, favoring each other, for example, through grooming or sharing of meat.
Last week, Google Earth laid down new 61-centimeter high-resolution satellite images of Gombe National Park. Previously the images of Gombe were low resolution (15 meters). Viewers could only zoom in so far before the image would blur. The high-resolution images were provided to Google Earth by DigitalGlobe, Inc., of Longmont, Colo. (CO in the geo-hizzy!)
The next step in the evolution of this blog will be to lay down markers and daily blog entries using the actual GPS coordinates provided by field staff. If Emily writes about observing chimpanzees resting on Jane's Peak, Google's pictorial Earth will spin right to Jane's Peak.
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The new imagery clearly depicts the extent of deforestation in the Gombe region - lush and green inside the park boundaries and desert-like outside. In fact, despite research and preservation efforts at Gombe, the habitat around the park is disappearing at an alarming rate. What was once a vast, flourishing forest with 120 to 140 chimps is now home to some 90 chimpanzees. The deforestation is a critical problem for Gombe chimps who have seen feeding range outside the park shrink. Those feeding areas are critical for long-term survival of Gombe chimpanzees.
Relatively cheery. Go here for more.
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