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...show—who could resist watching lizards do push ups? We all know that humans like to show off to get a little attention every once in a while, but I never knew that doing push-ups to impress the ladies isn’t an exclusively Homo sapien mating tactic. As it turns out, color plays a big role in interactions between the sexes. Males typically are more colorful in order to attract females, though in the case of the Red-necked Phalarope, an arctic shore bird, the color and gender roles are reversed. It?...

Author: By Anna E. Sakellariadis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Color Dazzles in Animal Kingdom | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...made fun of gays: “Are you a homo sapien?” he asked...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook and Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Controversial Clown Gave Laughter, Life to Square | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...Some say that it was domesticating animals that separated homo sapien from homo erectus. I didn’t think The Great Gatsby proved this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen worst ways to open a response paper | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...well-kept homes each day with aching backs and cracked hands, and then they take turns pulling night duty, trying to pass pride of ownership and safe streets on to the grandchildren. "We've been burglarized 10 times, and nobody ever sees a vehicle or a person," says Tom Sapien, 51, who peers into the twilight from Martinez's backseat and misses nothing. "People are afraid to get involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...racing, the only other regulated high speed animal racing sport (in the matter of speed, both horse and dog put homo sapien to shame) jockeys have been foresaken in the 20th century for the mechanical rabbit. Though the change originally occurred because man had become too large to ride dogs, the jockey's steel and cotton replacement has proved more than sufficient, and in many ways beneficial. Has one ever heard of a mechanical rabbit strike...

Author: By Mack A. Kniphe and Robert Ullmann, S | Title: All Joking Aside, Is the Jockey Really Necessary? | 5/24/1977 | See Source »

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