{"id":9018,"date":"2005-05-28T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T08:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/28\/lizzards\/"},"modified":"2005-05-28T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T09:59:44","slug":"lizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/05\/28\/lizards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hiding lizard<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I finally understood how biologists start off with their researches. They don’t do it in universities as other people. Instead they go for walks with their children. It’s been just a few days that I go in the municipal park with Maxim, but I’ve learned so much about lizzards that I’m starting to think it can be enough for a small project.<\/p>\n

And today was particularly rich with lizard observations. I saw a lot of them. One caught an insect and ate it. Another one found a bunch of ants who were eating a dead bug. He scared the ants away and ate the bug himself. There was a sick lizard too. Or maybe he was dying or something. He stood in the middle of the road, breathing heavily, with an open mouth, and behaving very aggressively towards anything that approached him. He even tried to bite the wheels off Maxim’s pram. There was another lizard, who was obviously very young and curious. He lost his tail in one of his quests for information. There was a group of lizards sunbathing together. There was this other lizard hiding on the bench. And, sad as it might be, there was a dead lizard too.<\/p>\n

I watched all these lizzard for about an hour or so. They got used to me and weren’t getting scared that easy. I made a few pictures too, of course. Fascinating little creatures!<\/p>\n

Album location: \/photos\/2005\/2005-05-28_POTD<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Today I finally understood how biologists start off with their researches. They don’t do it in universities as other people. Instead they go for walks with their children. It’s been just a few days that I go in the municipal park with Maxim, but I’ve learned so much about lizzards that I’m starting to think … Continue reading Lizards<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[48],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photography","tag-potd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16145,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/04\/presidential-elections-russia-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":9018,"position":0},"title":"Presidential elections, Russia, 2012","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Today Russia is voting for a new president.\u00a0 There is a lot of discussion and effort to make these elections fair and square.\u00a0 A lot of people are observing and controlling.\u00a0 I myself won't be participating though.\u00a0 I don't believe that I have any vote in the matter anyway.\u00a0 Instead,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":21490,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/10\/the-anternet\/","url_meta":{"origin":9018,"position":1},"title":"The anternet","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 10, 2014","format":"link","excerpt":"Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet' Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, is an algorithm that manages data congestion on the Internet, and as such was integral in allowing the early web to scale up from a few dozen nodes to the billions in use today. 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