The human ecology of vampires.

In case you're wondering, Buffy's Sunnyvale reaches a stable equilibrium with a population of about 36,000 humans and 18 vampires.

And so Buffy emerges as the deeply anti-ecological force she is, disrupting nature's balance with her pointless persecution of an endangered species...



Via Pharyngula.

Monday night ecology.

* Starbucks has an official corporate policy of wasting a whole lot of water for no good reason.

* At least 25% of the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction, according to the first assessment of their status for a decade.

* Are we past the global warming tipping point?

Bad news for culturemonkeys: Around half of the world's primate species are at risk of extinction. Even the recent surprise discovery of a kind of hidden Gorilla City of more than 125,000 western lowland gorillas—more than primatologists believed were alive—can make me feel better about this.