This lanky boy is a quarter horse foal born at the UC Davis Horse Barn. Foals are able to stand within hours of birth, and some of their first directed behaviors appear towards their mother, including nuzzling and nursing. [Photo and caption by Isabelle McDonald-Gilmartin] Reference: Grogan, E. H., & McDonnell, S. M. (2005). Mare…
Author: The Ethogram
The official blog of the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group.
Sunday Sketch: An eggcellent bird
Check out this fun fact about chickens!
Field Frame Friday: Snake is king
The California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae) is a wide-foraging generalist predator which feeds on a variety of prey items including small mammals, lizards, birds, and even other snakes. Though this species is broadly, anecdotally known for preying on venomous rattlesnakes, recent studies highlight dietary composition reflective of seasonal and geographically available prey [1]. In the photo,…
Sunday Sketch: The uncanny Coati
Check out this fun fact about the cool coati!
Field Notes: Maybe She’s Born With It, Maybe It’s a Combination of Nature and Nurture.
I came into work, sat down at my desk, and checked to see if my computer had finished analyzing the footage I had fed it the night before. I was trying to train a program called SLEAP to look at a video, pick out the four fish that were swimming around, and track their individual…
Sunday Sketch: Ant Activity
Check out this fun fact about ant activity!
Arts & Crafts: World Otter Day
Celebrate World Otter Day with this young explorer!
An ABGG Student’s Perspective On Starting Graduate School During a Global Pandemic
Three years ago, I was meeting with graduate students and potential graduate advisors, hopeful and excited about the years to come. A few months later, I submitted applications and the prospects of fulfilling my goals seemed just within arm’s reach. Then, a global pandemic happened. Looking back at the events of the last two years,…
Sunday Sketch: Tenacious tigers
Check out this interesting fact about tigers!
Field Notes: A Change of Scene
Science takes place in all sorts of circumstances, and for me, those circumstances are usually inside of a lab. They are also often spread across multiple facilities and at very odd hours of the day (or night), and those are entire research stories of their own. Nonetheless, one of my favorite things about research is…
