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,…
Creature Feature: Saiga Antelope
The saiga antelope, also known as Mongolian saiga (Saiga tatarica), is a little-known species of antelope, recognizable by its distinctive facial features. While saiga antelope once inhabited Mongolia, the extant (i.e. current) populations of saiga antelope live in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and a small part of Russia. These antelope once ranged from France all the way…
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…
Field Frame Friday: Confetti Heads for Science
Sometimes the smallest changes can make the biggest difference in research! In rehabilitation, elephant seals get these nifty “hat tags” so that when there are a lot of seals in one pen, we can easily identify who is who with minimal disturbance (they like to sleep all piled together, and being sick, they like to…
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!
Field Frame Friday: Someone turn up the heat!
Rock Hyraxes (Procavia capensis), elephant’s closest land relative, are grumpy little floofs with poor thermoregulation (the ability to regulate their body temperature). Luckily they are gregarious and to keep warm, pile on top of each other in burrows until the sun comes out, then take their cuddle puddle outside to bask in the sun together….
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,…
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