A Jungle Farm for Zoo Boarders

Boarders, Not Patients

Mental Health 1965-66 states that it is estimated that half of the 64,000 patients in hospitals for the mentally subnormal could leave hospital if there were suitable accommodation and adequate support for them in the community. The validity of this statement is substantiated by a study of the referrals to the admission bureau at this hospital for the mentally subnormal which serves a populatio...

Jungle Days

Jungle delights

Twelve scientists from Indonesia, Australia and the US recently returned from a two-week trek through the Foja Mountains in the Indonesian west of New Guinea. Their finds have yet to be evaluated and officially classified by experts around the world, but a preliminary count of new species includes one bird, four butterflies, five palms, one flower, four or five mammals, and 20 frogs — close to ...

A Ubiquitous Zoo Guide

In this paper a novel visitor information system for zoos is described. Vistors going through the zoo hold PDAs close to RFID tags, which are attached to animal cages, and which thus identify the animals. Over WLAN, the PDAs send this ID to a Web server, which sends back a multimedia Web presentation for the respective animal. The novel idea is to additionally attach the Web server to a global ...

A Five-Species Jungle Game

In this paper, we investigate the five-species Jungle game in the framework of evolutionary game theory. We address the coexistence and biodiversity of the system using mean-field theory and Monte Carlo simulations. Then, we find that the inhibition from the bottom-level species to the top-level species can be critical factors that affect biodiversity, no matter how it is distributed, whether h...