Posted on 11/22/2017 8:07:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Many species, including humans, struggle to survive when temperatures rise too high. But even small increases can affect animals, causing subtle changes in physiology or behavior that alter how they fare.
For some lizards, the effects of heat may, somewhat literally, be a no-brainer. A new study published in Royal Society Open Science has found that a temperature increase on the scale expected from climate change can make bearded dragons dumber.
Bearded dragons are Australian lizards that have become popular as pets, and like other reptiles, they’re not as dumb as they might seem. “Reptiles were long considered to be sluggish and unintelligent creatures,” said Anna Wankinsom, an animal cognition scientist at the University of Lincoln in the U.K. But that has been changing, as research has showed that many lizards possess complex cognitive skills, from navigation to problem solving.
Reptiles were already facing steep odds from climate change—it’s estimated that one-fifth of all lizard species could be extinct by 2080. Mental dimming could further stack the deck.Amiel suspects that there may be a few winners, like his skinks—and then, there will be the dragons. “They might be losers, and that allows other animals to come in and challenge them for that habitat,” he said.
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(Many species, including humans, struggle to survive when temperatures rise too high.)
Actually, the opposite is true, but who am I to get in the way of propaganda?
Reptiles are cold-blooded animals, by definition.
Global warming will make them more active and more prolific.
This person is stupid...............
Speculation like this is peddled as science.
Australia already undergoes a thirty degree variation most years.
Changing a fraction of a degree will hardly be measurable.
[[Many species, including humans, struggle to survive when temperatures rise too high.]]
Well sure- anything over 150 degree Fahrenheit and I’m just no good for anything
For some lizards, the effects of heat may, somewhat literally, be a no-brainer. A new study published in Royal Society Open Science has found that a temperature increase on the scale expected from climate change can make bearded dragons dumber. …These pseudoscience merchants and their weasel terms. Frankly, bearded dragons, whose brain is the size of a small pea, have more brains than these self-debasing propagandists.
Regards,
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
The leezards are getting stupid!
Give them some ice water.
Lord knows, we need smarter leezards.
The great cathedrals of Europe are proof that warm is good and cool is bad, not just for man but for nature.
They were built during a time of prosperity when it was easier to grow food despite the fact that the human influences that caused the dark ages, like Muslim depredations, were still largely in place.
If cultures barely getting by can manage such extravagance just because conditions were favorable imagine what critters in the wild were doing?
So none of this is true, but in theory IT COULD BE, if the EXPECTED temperature rises.
A bearded fire-breathing dragon would always be accidentally setting his own face on fire. Just sayin’.
I once knew a Dragon Lady.
She had no beard.
The hotter she got,
the dumber I became.
Works on manbearpigs as well.
Regardless of temperature, Bearded Dragons are still smarter than Democrats.
Liberal-Progressive-Democrat-Science-Impliers are dumber because of Climate Change.
Passing legislation should do the trick nicely. Next study question?
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