Monday, April 4, 2011 - Echo Bay Campground, Lake Mead NV
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Gathering, Great Blue Heron, Burro Creek AZ, March 28, 2011
It's a short flight home
The herons are gathering nesting materials from plants and shrubs growing right on the craggy cliff face within a few hundred feet of the nest.
Night camp
Site 36 - Echo Bay Lower Campground, Overton Arm, Lake Mead Recreation Area, Lake Mead NV
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Echo Bay Lower Campground on my Night Camps map
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Messing Up Their Results
... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.