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SEALDON PINNIPEDERSON
Tavishi One of my favorite book series is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive . Great series, absolutely obsessed. In my grief and...
Mar 8, 20252 min read
HERITABLE VETERINARY ERYTHROCYTE DISORDERS
Tavishi I'm not entirely sure why I still add my name to my blog posts; if you've been reading Kradigan for a while, you know that...
Mar 2, 20254 min read


CRANIAL NERVES
Tavishi coolest brother who DID consent to this <3 This is my brother, Yash. More importantly, he's one of Kradigan's biggest fans. Jokes...
Feb 23, 20254 min read


EPILEPSY: A DISEASE FOR THE LOVESICK
Tavishi On February 14th in the middle ages, children with epilepsy were given keys. Valentine's Day didn't start off as a holiday of...
Feb 13, 20253 min read


AR EN AY (RNA!)
Tavishi RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a single-stranded nucleic acid composed of nucleotides. Each RNA nucleotide contains a sugar...
Feb 2, 20252 min read


VIRAL CLASSES
Tavishi When I first started liking biology, I enjoyed it in the realm of understanding things. Not knowing the answer to something made...
Jan 28, 20254 min read


MES-SEAL-IER OBJECTS
Tavishi I don't usually write astronomy posts. My specialty is biology, and I don't know too much about astronomy. But I do know a little...
Jan 24, 20253 min read


PLANT HORMONES A LA SHAKESPEARE
Tavishi It is once again that time of year in which I am reminded that sonnets are a thing by one of my teachers, and yet again, I take...
Jan 21, 20251 min read


LEPTOSPIROSIS IN PINNIPEDS
Tavishi This is Vincent, a harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ) pup admitted to the Marine Mammal Center in March 2023 for leptospirosis and...
Jan 17, 20254 min read


STAR-RING THE STARLING: MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SWARMING BEHAVIOR
Tavishi Rome is known for many things: the Colosseum, Catholics, Capitoline Hill, Caesar, and pizza. The most culturally significant of...
Jan 13, 20253 min read


TOO MUCH TOXIN-G ABOUT FOOD "TOXINS"
Tavishi In the past few years, the internet has experienced a surge in "crunchy" food influencers, who label any difficult to pronounce...
Jan 8, 20253 min read


PINNIPED PHARMACEUTICALS
Tavishi A crucial part of medicine is treatment. A great deal of my Kradigan posts deal with illness, but rarely delve further into the...
Dec 27, 20243 min read


THE C IN CRITTERS
Tavishi Most good things start with the letter C: capers, cheese, cyan, cornichons, crepes, chutney, and other edible things. On the...
Dec 23, 20242 min read


ACE INHIBITORS
Tavishi Contrary to what Big Playing Cards may claim, ACE inhibitors are NOT an anti-ace card group who are certainly NOT distributing...
Dec 12, 20243 min read


HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL GENETICS
Tavishi During the 19th century, the Hawaiian monk seal was hunted to near extinction, just as most pinnipeds in the time. As a whole,...
Dec 5, 20242 min read


PAW-PRIOCEPTION
Tavishi I've recently been getting more and more into neurology and sensation, and something that has particularly interested me is...
Dec 1, 20243 min read


HORMONES IN THE WEDDELL SEAL
Tavishi The weddell seal, or Leptonychotes weddellii , is one of my favorite pinniped species. I routinely follow the work of the Montana...
Nov 26, 20243 min read


PANCAKE ANIMALS
Tavishi Contrary to popular belief, just because something is flat, doesn't mean you can put Canada liquid (maple syrup) on it and eat...
Nov 13, 20243 min read


OTOSTRONGYLUS INFECTION
Tavishi One of the chief concerns among elephant seals presenting at the Marine Mammal Center is a nematode (roundworm) parasite known as...
Nov 5, 20243 min read
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