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Corvids

I’ve been under the weather and spending most of my time in bed of late, though I managed to attain just enough lucidity Saturday night to watch the Dark Night Rises.

It was too long, too predictable, and would have made me angry if I’d had any energy to spare. Nevertheless, it served me well as a pop culture reference point when I happened to check twitter last night during the Super Bowl, which I wasn’t watching, and was startled to see jokes about Bane blacking out the Superdome suddenly over-running my feed. Husband had the game paused on the Tivo, so we caught up enough to marvel at the power outage, then I lost interest and went back to my feverish funk.

Consequently, I have nothing clever (or otherwise) to say about the game. Frankly, even if I’d watched it I’d have nothing clever to say.

I do have a good link for you: Jason Goldman’s Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Ravens: Superbowl Edition, on his Scientific American blog, The Thoughtful Animal.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Dr. Birdcage passed this along – “The List: 5 Reasons Why We Should Worry About an Ape Revolution.” It’s from Smithsonian Magazine’s Around the Mall blog.

With the impending release this Friday of the documentary summer blockbuster Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I thought we should all be prepared in case we ever face chemically enhanced apes that attempt to take over our world. In the past on our site we’ve investigated zombies and kept a running record on robot technology, but the threat of ape rebellion had yet to be cataloged. The National Zoo’s Amanda Bania, a keeper who works with the great apes, told me that gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and the other ape species can best us in many ways, even without being injected with mysterious serums by James Franco. This week’s list deals with 5 ways that apes outdo humans:

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I mostly posted this to fuel JunglePete’s clearly rational and justified fears about the impending ape-based apocalypse.