[Rylkan]

I seemed to remember it, but I looked it up (found definitely one of them) when you posted the question. If no one replies in the next day or two, I might have to reply. >.>

[miaka5]

ectothermy? o-O

[Zoo]

That's one, though it's the less correct one, as it doesn't apply to all 'cold-blooded' animals. Taken literally (outside heat) it's right, but more technically it refers to animals who control their body temperature by changing their environment (lying on a hot rock, jumping in the water, etc.).

There's a 'p' word I'm also looking for.

[miaka5]

poikilothermy? i work best when i have the first letter of a word XD

[Zoo]

Yep, that's the second. Your turn .

[miaka5]

what are the six flavors of quarks

[Zoo]

Ugh. . . let's see if I can remember this >_<

up, down, charmed, strange. . . truth and beauty >_<


edit:
had to look it up. . . those last two must go with something else >_<; I didn't think they were right

edit2:
ok, was trying to find what they actually were, and apparently they are right, sometimes, because:

"Often the names "top" and "bottom" are replaced by "truth" and "beauty." This is because there is a distinction between "bare" and "hidden" properties: charm in the cc0 particle is "hidden" because anti-charm cancels out all the properties of charm, while in the cs+ particle charm is "bare" because it is not canceled out. Those locutions mean that physicists end up talking about "bare bottom" and "bare top," which some think sounds too sexually suggestive to occur in scientific discussions. Indeed, in this day and age, someone, including whole universities, might get sued for "sexual harassment" for tolerating terms like "bare bottom" in front of ready-to-be-offended feminists."

LOL

(from http://www.friesian.com/particle.htm)

[miaka5]

lul, cool ^^ your turn

[Zoo]

Do vampire bats practice altruism? No simple yes or no, at least try to explain .

[Zoo]

Hint 1: A vampire bat will share it's own meal (by regurgitation upon return to the roost site. . .) if a fellow bat for some reason is unable to obtain a meal (their high metabolism means death occurs fairly quickly if they can't get a meal within a reasonable amount of time)

[Zoo]

Hint 2: A vampire bat remembers who it shared its meals with.

[Zziggywolf5]

For the sake of the topic, I say, "Yes, vampire bats form close relationships in order to ensure each other's survival."

[Zoo]

Well, you tried

Hint 1 was to get you to say yes, hint 2 was to point you toward no

So, no, they don't practice true altruism, which is defined as some sort of self-sacrifice that has no reward to the actor (most examples of altruism in the animal world have some sort of reward to the actor, often by increasing indirect fitness, the number of near relatives that live and reproduce). They will share meals if a roost-mate can't get one for some reason, but they remember which bats they shared with and whether or not they shared back. If that bat didn't share back, the original provider may not share with the recipient again.

Go ahead Ziggy

[Zziggywolf5]

Eh... Name a difference between apes and monkeys.

[Zoo]

Apes don't have tails.