Weasels killing Frogs

Weasels, Hedges and Peacocks: Discourse-level Uncertainty in Wikipedia Articles

Uncertainty is an important linguistic phenomenon that is relevant in many areas of language processing. While earlier research mostly concentrated on the semantic aspects of uncertainty, here we focus on discourseand pragmaticsrelated aspects of uncertainty. We present a classification of such linguistic phenomena and introduce a corpus of Wikipedia articles in which the presented types of dis...

Killing begets killing: evidence from a bug-killing paradigm that initial killing fuels subsequent killing.

Killing appears to perpetuate itself even in the absence of retaliation. This phenomenon may occur in part as a means to justify prior killing and so ease the threat of prior killing. In addition, this effect should arise particularly when a killer perceives similarity to the victims because similarity should exacerbate threat from killing. To examine these ideas, the authors developed a bug-ki...

Predation by Ermine and Long-tailed Weasels on Duck Eggs

Túngara frogs

Why are they called túngara frogs? As in most frog species, males call to attract females. Unlike most other frog species, túngara frogs produce both simple and complex calls. A simple call consists of a frequencymodulated sweep called a ‘whine’, while a complex call is a whine plus one to six or seven broadband ‘chucks’. The name ‘túngara’ frog is onomatopoeically derived from the male’s call:...

Poison frogs

Stynoski et al. introduce the dendrobatids, a charismatic group of frogs known for their colourful and often poisonous skin.