WHO: National Science Foundation
WHAT: The NSF helped fund a study to determine why Jamaican Anolis lizards perform a series of vigorous push-ups, head bobs and neck extensions at both dawn and dusk.
Terry Ord, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and the University of California, Davis, thinks the male lizards use such displays primarily to mark territory.
WHY IT’S AN OUTRAGE: Harvard has a $14 billion endowment. UC Davis’ is $630 million. The national debt is $9.5 trillion. Guess who should be paying for lizard research?
