The Smithsonian does fund Smithsonian magazine. Why did you think not - curious? They just hired a new Editor in chief, who laid off several staff editors in a bloodbath, and it got some media coverage. So the pub will be changing, or is changing. But it's definitely still under the Smithsonian.
Wendee Wendee Holtcamp, M.S. Ecology ~ Writer * Photographer * Bohemian Web: [wendeeholtcamp.com] Blog: [bohemianadventures.blogspot.com] Twitter: twitter.com/bohemianone Email: [email protected] Online Magazine Writing Classes start Sep 1 & Oct 13, 2012 - Ask me! On 8/28/12 6:32 AM, "J. Michael Nolan" <[email protected]> wrote: >I was given the gift of some yearly subscription to Smithsonian Magazine. >Have no clue who keeps it going or what is paying for it. Sure not the >Smithsonian! > >Anyway, I am one of those nerds that reads the darn thing. Well, in all >honesty I do look at the pictures. Someone once said that about Playboy >Magazine. Whoops, no that was the other way around for Playboy....the >didn't look at the pictures, but only read the articles. > >Sorry, its early here. > >Anyway....if you get a chance see Jan 2012....hot spots in the world to >visit if Evolution is your main interest in life. Swimming Lizards (of >course that would be Galapagos); Walking Whales; Early Humans, etc. > >Jan/Feb 2004....geez, have been getting the magazine longer than I >realized. > >One addition to my spiel yesterday on A. callidryas, the stunning >Red-eyed Tree Frog. The colony I have been keeping is of the more >southern....Costa Rica, Panama variety. I do wake them up and show people >their stunning powder blue sides and like I said the ones in the image >have a more purple coloration on their sides, more like what I have seen >and caught in Belize. Probably not a great classroom Animal. When they >are plastered up against the inside of you terrarium, being nocturnal and >all....there really is not much to see. I suppose we could come up with a >lesson or 2 in watching a Frog sleep? Actually, the way they plaster >themselves onto some, a leaf in the wild is rather amazing to me. Every >square inch, millimeter if you are on your Metric System Unit of their >ventral surface is covered. This is where they obviously can lose the >most fluids from and desiccate the easiest from. The skin on their dorsal >surface, which is obviously green is just a bit thicker vs. their >belly-side, which is a whitish color. > >Also, if you want to get involved with them and there are captive bred >Animals out there....please make sure they are captive bred and not >yanked out of the wild....another negative for the Classroom is that it >takes 6 or 8 or 10 to have them breed. They breed in colonies in the >wild, and that trend seems to carry over to captivity. > >Oh, and for Earth Science folks on the list. Talk about forgetting than >some people know? In the wild, one more amazing factoid about these guys. >They are very good at predicting the weather. They will sometimes start >calling (Males only) and breeding BEFORE there is any water or pool of >water below them. So, eggs can be deposited before there is any where for >the larvae to go 10 days later. But, by some strange sense an ensuing >monsoon type rain is about to happen in most cases. So, what was dry land >will now be a very nice pond for the young to hatch into. > >When this started it was supposed to be only a couple of sentences. > >I will someday share some info on Poison Frogs, talk about the evolution >of their breeding behavior, why poison-dart frog is just not a great >thing to call them and why these guys could be Great for your Classroom. > >One long deal still brewing on Macaws in capitivity and in the wild also. > >Thank you and have a great Tuesday. Another spectacular morning on the >eastern shores of Lake Michigan. > >Thank you. > >Mike Nolan > >---------- > >If we are on another line or away from the phone, please leave your >number, best time to return your call and your e-mail address. > >After hours and weekend phone appointments are available upon request. > >Sincerely, > >J. 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