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Power Femme
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Cinnamon spiced, caramel colored, power-femme
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She
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Married to a wonderful horse girl
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Originally Posted by Softhearted
"How vampire bats find blood
How vampire bats know precisely where to bite to strike a blood-spurting vein close to the skin has always been a mystery — until now.
A team of American and Venezuelan scientists studying wild vampire bats in South America has discovered a heat-sensing molecule called TRPV1 covering nerve endings on the bats' noses.
The finding, published in this week's journal Nature, shows how small changes to a particular species' genes can lead to important evolutionary adaptations."
source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/st...t-seeking.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/1108....2011.454.html
Gracheva, E.O et al. (2011). Ganglion-specific splicing of TRPV1 underlies infrared sensation in vampire bats. Nature, 476: 88-91. |
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