the shop, using natural ingredients whenever possible, the only solution to the problem was to use artificial grape flavor.
Grape has proven to be one of Tony’s most popular flavors, not only in cups and cones, but in milk shakes. As the family anticipated, grape ice cream is most popular with kids, but Coletta reports that another demographic group goes bonkers for grape ice cream, too—pregnant women. Want to see what drives Gastonians wild? Check out the grape ice cream photos at http://www.imponderables.com/gastonia.php.
P.S. Tony’s is not alone. James Bristow, a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, who photographed Tony’s grape ice cream for our Web site, was nonplussed when contacted about our exciting find. “There’s another place with grape ice cream a few miles away—Bruster’s.”
Right he was. Bruster’s Ice Cream is a rapidly growing chain of more than 200 ice cream stores. Started as one family-run store in 1989 by Bruce Reed, Bruster’s introduced grape ice cream shortly after it opened. According to Reed, kids requested the flavor. We spoke to Christina Parker, vice president of operations, who told us that Bruster’s grape ice cream was also made from artificial flavoring, and that the flavor is still popular among children, especially in the summer. And if grape ice cream seems a little mundane for the kiddies, they can also sample other flavors such as blue pop, watermelon, purple dinosaur, cotton candy explosion (with chocolate-covered Pop Rocks), and our favorite, birthday cake (with icing and sprinkles, and presumably no candles).
Why Don’t You Ever Hear Giraffes Vocalize? Do They Ever Make a Sound?
G iraffes are among the most taciturn of animals. We’ve never heard a giraffe vocalize but it turns out that they’ve been dissing us, for they possess larynxes and vocal cords and actually make a variety of sounds.
The heroine of our story is Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, a bioacoustician and president of Fauna Communications Research Institute in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Muggenthaler reckoned that because giraffes are highly social, and are forager-vegetarians who are the prey of other animals, it was highly unlikely that they could survive without intraspecies communication. The giraffe’s anatomy was another clue to Muggenthaler—if they don’t speak, then why are their ears shaped like parabolas, which seem perfectly designed to pick up on sounds?
Giraffes do vocalize occasionally. Calves, especially, utter a bleating mewl. Mothers utter a “roaring bellow” when looking for their young, who are often left alone in the forest while the parent forages. And males are known to seduce partners with a “raucous cough.” Occasionally, adults also bleat (Muggenthaler compares them to goat bleats) and “moo” as if imitating cows. When threatened, the giraffe’s yelling side emerges—they are capable of mustering up a roar when in danger. Still, these vocalizations are exceptions rather than the rule, and it is possible even for those who work around giraffes to think they are mute.
Could giraffes speak in ways humans couldn’t understand? Scientists had already determined that whales and elephants communicated via infrasonic sound—vocalizations at such low frequencies that humans could not hear them. Scientists discovered the songs of the humpback whale more than forty years ago, and researchers like Muggenthaler and the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have documented the complexity of infrasonic vocalizations. A Cornell researcher, Katy Payne, discovered the elephants’ infrasonic communication when she found her ears throbbing near elephant cages. It reminded her of singing in a church choir, where the pipe organ was almost inaudible at the lower frequencies but the pressure in her ears palpable.
While studying the low-frequency vocalizations of elephants, Muggenthaler discovered that rhinoceroses also
Grape has proven to be one of Tony’s most popular flavors, not only in cups and cones, but in milk shakes. As the family anticipated, grape ice cream is most popular with kids, but Coletta reports that another demographic group goes bonkers for grape ice cream, too—pregnant women. Want to see what drives Gastonians wild? Check out the grape ice cream photos at http://www.imponderables.com/gastonia.php.
P.S. Tony’s is not alone. James Bristow, a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, who photographed Tony’s grape ice cream for our Web site, was nonplussed when contacted about our exciting find. “There’s another place with grape ice cream a few miles away—Bruster’s.”
Right he was. Bruster’s Ice Cream is a rapidly growing chain of more than 200 ice cream stores. Started as one family-run store in 1989 by Bruce Reed, Bruster’s introduced grape ice cream shortly after it opened. According to Reed, kids requested the flavor. We spoke to Christina Parker, vice president of operations, who told us that Bruster’s grape ice cream was also made from artificial flavoring, and that the flavor is still popular among children, especially in the summer. And if grape ice cream seems a little mundane for the kiddies, they can also sample other flavors such as blue pop, watermelon, purple dinosaur, cotton candy explosion (with chocolate-covered Pop Rocks), and our favorite, birthday cake (with icing and sprinkles, and presumably no candles).
Why Don’t You Ever Hear Giraffes Vocalize? Do They Ever Make a Sound?
G iraffes are among the most taciturn of animals. We’ve never heard a giraffe vocalize but it turns out that they’ve been dissing us, for they possess larynxes and vocal cords and actually make a variety of sounds.
The heroine of our story is Elizabeth von Muggenthaler, a bioacoustician and president of Fauna Communications Research Institute in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Muggenthaler reckoned that because giraffes are highly social, and are forager-vegetarians who are the prey of other animals, it was highly unlikely that they could survive without intraspecies communication. The giraffe’s anatomy was another clue to Muggenthaler—if they don’t speak, then why are their ears shaped like parabolas, which seem perfectly designed to pick up on sounds?
Giraffes do vocalize occasionally. Calves, especially, utter a bleating mewl. Mothers utter a “roaring bellow” when looking for their young, who are often left alone in the forest while the parent forages. And males are known to seduce partners with a “raucous cough.” Occasionally, adults also bleat (Muggenthaler compares them to goat bleats) and “moo” as if imitating cows. When threatened, the giraffe’s yelling side emerges—they are capable of mustering up a roar when in danger. Still, these vocalizations are exceptions rather than the rule, and it is possible even for those who work around giraffes to think they are mute.
Could giraffes speak in ways humans couldn’t understand? Scientists had already determined that whales and elephants communicated via infrasonic sound—vocalizations at such low frequencies that humans could not hear them. Scientists discovered the songs of the humpback whale more than forty years ago, and researchers like Muggenthaler and the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have documented the complexity of infrasonic vocalizations. A Cornell researcher, Katy Payne, discovered the elephants’ infrasonic communication when she found her ears throbbing near elephant cages. It reminded her of singing in a church choir, where the pipe organ was almost inaudible at the lower frequencies but the pressure in her ears palpable.
While studying the low-frequency vocalizations of elephants, Muggenthaler discovered that rhinoceroses also
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