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A little diversion today, while fact-checking something.
Currently reading The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to US, Steve Brusatte, c. 2022. where I first came across the reference to hyraxes in the bible.
As mentioned earlier, for a high school junior or senior going on to college to major in one of the life sciences, the three books that should be summer reading:
- The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, From the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to US, Steve Brusatte, c. 2022.
- The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution And The Origin Of Birds, Lowell Dingus And Timothy Rowe. c. 1998
- The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka, c. 2022. Princeton University Press. A scientific treatise.
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Pop Quiz
One out of every five mammal species alive right now is a ______________ -- some fourteen hundred total species -- a diversity exceeded only by rodents.
Not only are there more ______________ species, but they are aces at coexisting: in the tropics, more than a hundred species are known to inhabit the same ecosystems.
Later, answer: bats.
Link: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/78145-largest-group-of-mammals.
