A fun fact about a bioluminescent crustacean.
Creature Feature: Coquí guajón
Learn about the haunting call of a little frog from Puerto Rico!
Field Frame Friday: Toothy and goofy!
Ruminant animals, like cows, don’t have upper incisors like many other animals, and instead have what is called a dental pad. This pad helps the cows to pinch the grass from the ground. The combination of the dental pad and tongue makes a very efficient system for grazing. Eubanks, D. L. (2012). Dental Considerations in Cows and…
Field Notes: Diary from a First Field Season
Hi there! Jessica here. I’m starting this diary to log the tribulations and triumphs of my PhD research on shorebirds in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Always exciting, grueling, and full of surprises, field season is my favorite part of the year . . . however, the first field season of a new project can be…
Sunday Sketch: An old wolves’ tale
Check out this amazing sketch packed with cool wolf facts!
Creature Feature: Leafcutter Ants
Learn about these tiny farmers who beat us to it!
Sunday Sketch: Whale of a Tale
A fun fact about one of the world’s largest mammals.
Sunday Sketch: Halloween Crab
A fact about a Halloween creature!
Field Frame Friday: Tree Tadpoles
While the joys of fieldwork are many, sometimes field research involves a lot of time staring at immobile study subjects high in the trees. I study coppery titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus), who spend much of their day in the canopy foraging or resting. While titis do move throughout the day, they spend multiple hours at…
Creature Feature: Dragonflies
Learn about a voracious but tiny predator from the air and water – dragonflies!
