Peregrine falcons are incredibly fast fliers, capable of reaching speeds of up to 112 km/h or 69 mph when chasing prey. Art and fact by Cloude Shao, Instagram @cloude_paint [Edited by Nicole Rodrigues] Reference: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (n.d.). Peregrine Falcon. All About Birds. Retrieved January 3, 2025, from https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Peregrine_Falcon
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Field Frame Friday: From egg to fledgling in just four weeks
How do birds choose a place that will allow them to keep their chicks safe from the time the first egg is laid until the last fledgling flies away? For chickadees, including the Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) that I studied in Pennsylvania, the answer lies in tree trunk cavities which…
Arts & Crafts: Happy World Hippo Day (Feb. 15th)!
Come celebrate World Hippo Day!
Newsroom: The impact of social housing on calf responses to novel foods following weaning and grouping
We have all heard the common phrase “lions, tigers, bears, oh my!” from Dorothy’s fears of entering the forest and encountering the cowardly lion, but have you heard “apples, carrots, friends, oh my?” Similar to humans, dairy calves respond to novel or unknown stimuli and situations with caution due to the possibility of a threat…
Throwback Creature Feature: Fire Salamander
Check out this post from 2019! We’ve seen psychedelic reptiles on this blog before. Surely, you may be thinking, the pool of psychedelic species is relatively limited. Not so fast! Poisons are incredibly important for amphibian defense, so there tend to be lots of poisonous amphibians around. And, for whatever reason, humans like to ingest…
Field Notes: Monkey Spit
It’s hard to find a professional way to tell people that I’m a monkey trainer. On paper, I’m a graduate student, but I spent most of the summer and fall of 2024 training monkeys to chew on swabs so I could collect their spit and test it for cortisol, a hormone that can indicate stress…
Field Frame Friday: A fantabulous fox
While this fox is both gray and red, it is neither a Gray Fox nor a Red Fox! Like them, it can be found in California, but only on six islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, and nowhere else in the world. This is the Island Fox (Urocyon littoralis), a species of fox endemic…
Arts & Crafts: Remarkable Reindeer!
Come learn about how amazing reindeer are in this week’s Young Explorer’s post!
Newsroom: Bees Have Learning Styles Just Like Us
How do you learn? Most of us learn something every day, even if we don’t realize it. We might learn how to fix our faucet, where the nearest store is, or even just a fun fact about honeybees from an article we found online. But have you ever wondered what happens “under the hood,”…
Creature Feature: Sociable weaver
In the deserts of southern Africa, there’s a bird that doesn’t just build a nest—it builds an entire city. Meet the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), whose constructive ingenuity overshadows their diminutive exterior. Their sprawling homes built within tree branches can host hundreds of birds: a whole community living together. While they live up to the…
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