Comments on: Are you near any of these National Parks? http://www.10daysofscience.com/709 10 days of science Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:48:28 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: David http://www.10daysofscience.com/709/comment-page-1#comment-17 David Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:57:37 +0000 http://www.10daysofscience.com/?p=709#comment-17 The potoroo does look charming, doesn't it? It has the graceful good looks of Sean Connery's James Bond, with the quick wit of John Lennon in a 1964 press conference. It's more charismatic in every way than its cousin the koala, which is surly, uninspiring, and outrageously stupid. From Tim Flannery's 1994 book The Future Eaters: "The koala's two cerebral hemispheres are like a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull. It is the only animal on Earth with such a strangely reduced brain." The potoroo does look charming, doesn’t it? It has the graceful good looks of Sean Connery’s James Bond, with the quick wit of John Lennon in a 1964 press conference. It’s more charismatic in every way than its cousin the koala, which is surly, uninspiring, and outrageously stupid. From Tim Flannery’s 1994 book The Future Eaters:

“The koala’s two cerebral hemispheres are like a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull. It is the only animal on Earth with such a strangely reduced brain.”

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