Why are fur seals called seals when they look more like sea lions?
Author: The Ethogram
The official blog of the UC Davis Animal Behavior Graduate Group.
Arts & Crafts: Conference Crafts
Artistic inspiration can hit anyone anywhere-even a child at an animal behavior talk!
Activity: Insect Scavenger Hunt
Learn how to examine insects in your community and compare their habitats and behaviors with this activity!
Creature Feature: Hummingbirds
Good things come in small packages! This saying perfectly describes our flying, flower-loving friends, the hummingbirds.
Ask a Scientist: Zebra Stripes
Why do zebras have stripes?
Sunday Sketch: If you are breeding and you know it, clap your flippers!
If you try and steal a seal’s girlfriend, do expect a clapback.
Field Frame Friday: She sells snail shells down by the sea shore
Certain characteristics of land snails correlate with environmental conditions, for instance larger snails are found in more moist habitats. Pheromones of conspecifics can also influence growth rate at large population densities such that smaller snails are found when population density is high. Snail shell height is influenced by the angle of the habitat where the…
Sunday Sketch: Telling the Bees
Always make sure your bees are sitting down before you hit them with some good or bad news
Field Frame Friday: A handsome collar fit for a cow
This cow (Bos taurus) is modeling a custom-made GPS collar that will be used to collect data on grazing behavior. Collars have to be sturdy and robust, so that these mischievous girls will not shake them off or rub them off while they are grazing extensive rangelands. The GPS devices in these collars store the…
Creature Feature: Orangutans
Learn about these clever red-headed apes from southeast Asia in this week’s Creature Feature.
