Science Heroes: the column highlighting scientists and naturalists that if you don’t know, you should! This month highlights ethnobotanist Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott!
Author: The Ethogram
The official blog of the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group.
Sunday Sketch: Pollinator Week
A bat fact for Pollinator Week!
Field Fiasco – Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Check out this weeks field fiasco by Carter Loftus to find out the lengths to which researchers will go to save their data!
Arts & Crafts: Critter Casts
Check out the different shapes of these young explorers’ animal molds!
Creature Feature: Sun bears
Imagine seeing an animal with slick fur, small ears, long tongue…is it a dog? But this animal also has super long claws and a golden crest on its chest…oh, it’s a sun bear!
Sunday Sketch: Ersatz Housing
A fact about finding shelter wherever you can in this world of ours
Field Frame Friday: Amazon Warriors… Assemble!
John Liu and Kirsten Sheehy brought their assembly A-game to the lab last week. These shelves are going to house the Laskowski Lab’s automated fish-tracking setup, which they will use to study the amazing Amazon molly’s (Poecilia formosa) behavior. They need to be strong enough to hold many gallons of water, but modular and flexible enough…
Arts & Crafts: Pollinator Pals
Celebrate pollinator week with these young explorers’ beautiful butterflies!
Sunday Sketch: Zombie Cicadas
Periodic cicadas don’t wait 17 years before reappearing on this blog
Field Frame Friday: Leafy Langurs
This fluffy, adorable leaf-eater is a dusky langur (Trachypithecus obscurus)! These primates live in Peninsular Malaysia, Myanmar and parts of Thailand. The white circles around the eyes and mouth bring attention to their faces, and give them their alternative common name of speckled leaf monkey. I stumbled across the male pictured above while he was…
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