Monday, October 31, 2016

Wikipedia Trails: From Stags to Tiger Quoll

I started off with going to the Wikipedia page for "stags" since I had always known they were deer or deer-like, but not why they were called that. The page wasn't very helpful, so I quickly moved on to stag beetles. I think they're some of the coolest looking insects with their giant mandibles. From there I saw the word "allometry". I was curious, and discovered that this is the study of relative size of body parts when compared to the rest of them. Every species is a little different proportionately. Next, I saw a picture of a Tiger Quoll and went there. They are cute little marsupials that I had never known existed.

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