Cockroaches: Nature's petri dish
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'Cockroaches in the Home, Cockroaches Everywhere!!!' written by a team led by Sesai Mpuchane, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Botswana, raises awareness among householders, street vendors and other groups of the biology of cockroaches, to better control them. The 73-page booklet has several illustrations showing some of the approximately 4,000 roaches that populate the planet and describes how they carry various disease causing microbes on their body surfaces.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2006
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Rock the monkey
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A study was performed on monkeys revealed that the physical and psychological aspects of throwing evolved separately, thereby negating the theory that must be able to perform an action in order to understand it, and also that animals can understand use of tool, mathematics.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2007
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An underwater life
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The article discusses how Lloyd Godson, a marine biologist, lived underwater for 13 days to examine the physical and psychological features of life underwater.
Publication Name: The Scientist
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-3670
Year: 2007
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