Antwan Hockaday

Recall Magawa, The Tanzanian-Born African Giant Pouched Rat Trained To Detect Landmine In Cambodia? Well, Magawa Is Retiring Having Reached The Retirement Age. Magawa Has Been Working For 5 Years In Cambodia And Has Since Cleared 2.4 Million Square Feet Of Land, And In The Process Found 71 Land Mines And 38 Items Of Unexploded Ordnance.

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Researchers Have Discovered, In Callao Cave, Philippines, The Remains of 3 New Gigantic But Extinct Species Of Cloud Rats (GCR) Said To Be “Twice The Size Of Grey Squirrels.” Cloud Rats Are Nocturnal Animals That Exist Today In The Philippines Forests. And The Rats Live On TreeTops. Humans Are Speculated To Have Led To GCR Extinction.

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Magawa, A 7-Year-Old African Rodent, And One Of The HeroRATs Trained To Detect Landmines Since The 1990s, Has Been Award A Gold Medal, By The UK Veterinary Charity, PDSA, For Its Gallantry In Sniffing Out Landmines And Unexploded Munitions In Cambodia. Magawa Has Sniffed Out 39 Landmines And 28 Unexploded Munitions In His Career.

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Scientists Spotted The Highest Dwelling Mammal In The World, A Mouse, At Height Of ~22,000 Ft. The Mouse Was Captured At The Top Of The Andes Llullaillaco Volcano On The Border Of Chile And Argentina. This Discovery Can Help Understand How Mammals Can Adapt To Harsh Environments. The World’s Deepest Dwelling Animal Has Also Been Spotted.

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An Octopus Has Been Spotted At The Depth Of ~7,000m In The Java Trench Of The Indian Ocean, Making It The World’s Deepest Octopus. The Octopus, A “Dumbo” Species, Is Said To Have Surpassed Previous Sighting At 5,145m. This Discovery Indicates That Octopus Can Find Potentially Suitable Habitat Across At Least 99% Of The Global Seafloor.

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Scientists, Using A New Technique, Have Now Confirmed And Identified The Part Of The Brain That’s Responsible For The Five Taste Groups: Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter And Umami. An Older Cortex, A Specific Portion Of The Insular Cortex, In The Brain, Hidden Behind The Neocortex, Is Said To Be Responsible For This.

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The Brain Of A Man Not Only Shrinks Faster Than A Woman Of The Same Age, But It Has Now Been Discovered That The Man’s Brain Also Ages Faster By 4 Years. And This Is Because Men Start Adulthood About 3 Years Older Than Women–A Reason Why Women Are Sharper Then Men Of The Same Age.

Women stay sharper than men in old age because their…

Many of Us Get So Easily Distracted That We Hardly Get Anything Done. Now, There Is An App For That. A Brain Training Game App, called Decoder, Has Been Developed By Researchers At Cambridge University, And It Is Said To Have The Same Effect As Ritalin, A Medication, With Regards To Helping People Stay Focused.

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Most Octopuses Are Known To Be Asocial. But A Recent Study Has Indicated That Ecstacy (MMDA) Seem To Have The Same Effect In Octopuses And Human, Making Them Act Socially. Scientists Hope That A Study Of MMDA On Octopus Would Help In The Treatment Of PTSD And How The Brain Conjures Social Behaviour In Humans.

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Nature Sometimes Seriously Blows My Mind. How Can At Least Two Octopuses Be Housed Under A Newly Discovered Giant Octopus Named The Frilled Giant Pacific Octopus (World Largest Octopus). I wonder How It Is Determined Which Of The Octopuses Should Be In The Driver’s Seat?

https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/new-giant-octopus-disco…