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!
Field (Lab) Notes: Do pigeon parents get better with practice?
What can pigeons teach us about the parental brain? What do COVID-19 testing and animal behavior analyses have in common? Read more about Victoria’s Ph.D. research to find out!
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…
Ask a Scientist: Large and in Charge
What is the strongest apex predator and why?
Sunday Sketch: Protect your Noggin
A fact about defensive tool use by one of nature’s smartest critters
Field Frame Friday: To eat or to save for later, the eternal question
A very familiar sight for us up here at Davis, I believe this here’s a Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger). These squirrels assess nut quality through handling and then make decisions on whether to cache the nut for later or eat it right away depending on its overall value. I also learned from an opening talk…
Arts & Crafts: Colorful Canary
Check out this young explorer’s bright bird craft!
Sunday Sketch: You Gonna Finish That?
A fact about bears being picky eaters
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