The Yeti crab (Kiwa hirsuta) live in what are called cold seeps, which are areas of the ocean floor where there is a plethora of sulfides and methane that seep from fissures in the ground. In order to thrive in these harsh conditions, Yeti crabs have an epibiotic relationship with bacteria that live on the…
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Field Frame Friday: Foxes and Food
Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis) inhabit the California Channel Islands. Over the course of the last 150 years or so, the ecology of each island has changed substantially, leading to different outcomes for different fox populations. The fox above is from Santa Cruz Island, where the population is currently healthy, although the foxes there are famous…
Sunday sketch: Badger behavior
The European badger (Meles meles) has a reputation for being a feisty creature, likely due to their territorial nature during the breeding season, when these animals are quick to fight one another. However, during the rest of the year, European badgers are very social, spending time grooming one another and denning together. Art by @miri_leshem_pelly…
Creature Feature: Gursky’s Spectral Tarsier
For our Halloween Special, we dive into the dark jungle to take a closer look at this mysterious, bug-eyed insect eater…
Sunday Sketch: Magical moths
The polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus), is a giant silk moth, with eyespots on its wings. The moth uses these spots to perform a distraction display to threaten predators, which essentially makes the insect appear larger and more threatening to whatever is trying to eat it. The moth gets its name from the Greek myth of the…
Creature Feature: Querequequé
Incognito, understudied, and onomatopoetic…spot this week’s creature!
Field Frame Friday: Salmon Salutations
To recreate natural conditions for rearing fish, salmon can be kept in cages deployed in streams within their native habitat. When setting out to check on the fish and cages, researchers load their equipment onto a jon boat and get their daily exercise by paddling up and down the river. [Photo by Ken Zillig][Caption by…
Science and Culture: From Awareness to Action – Communicating the Urgency of Biodiversity Loss
Can we afford to remain silent on biodiversity loss? No! This article dives into the challenges of effectively communicating the urgency of biodiversity loss to the public and what tools are out there to best tackle this,
Sunday Sketch: Tree frogs
Check out this fun fact about tree frogs?
Newsroom: Exploring how behaviors can influence evolution and ecology: unlocking the secrets of correlated behavior
Do you behave exactly the same at work versus at home? In most cases, you adjust your behavior to suit the environment you are in. When you go to work, you probably change out of your pajamas and don’t watch as much TV. Your ability to adjust your habits from one environment to another is…
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