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Monitor Lizards in Australia Dig Corkscrew Nests
- hprotagonist 5y agoAre monitor lizards chiral? Or do they dig enantiomeric nests?
- test_epsilon 5y agoA corkscrew is chiral, if that's what you're asking.
- hprotagonist 5y agoright, so do they prefer one orientation over the other? Are these (E)-lizards or (Z)-lizards or a racemic mixture of the two? The world must know!
- jjp 5y agoSee Scientific American blog post [1] which has a drawing from the paper author. [1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goannas-dig-the-deepest-twistiest-burrows-of-all/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/goanna...
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- hprotagonist 5y ago> The V. panoptes burrows start with a short sub-horizontal section, then have a long curving, descending section, at the end of which is a descending vertical helix that can have as many as eight convolutions. Some of the helices are clockwise, others are anti-clockwise, and some switch from one direction to the other (Doody et al. 2015). ok, that’s what i wanted to know. Monitor lizards are racemic.
- jtbayly 5y agoAnd the corkscrew is counter-clockwise because of the Coriolis effect.
- smitty1e 5y agoProbably not worth bringing them to the northern hemisphere to test this theory.
- standardUser 5y ago"She lays her eggs and digs her way back out, emerging seven to 10 days after she first submerged." Wow.
- BugWatch 5y agoNon turbare pixelos meos.
- hprotagonist 5y ago"people called Romanes, they go the 'ouse"?
- legerdemain 5y ago> Australia’s brutal dry season, when several months might go by without any rain. But that's just a typical Bay Area summer!
- garmaine 5y agoSeriously, there are many parts of the world where this is true. Bad reporting, maybe?