Check out this week’s newsroom, featuring zoologist Amelia Lewis and her paper that builds on the concept of the ‘Total Umwelt’ to discuss shared meaning and social signalling in animal social groups!
Science Heroes: Dr. Margaret S. Collins, the ‘Termite Lady’
Welcome to Science Heroes, the column highlighting incredible scientists and naturalists, such as Dr. Margaret S. Collins!
Sunday Sketch: Hot Headed
A fact about Swordfish hunting!
Field Frame Friday: Daffodils or Disease-odils?
Bees of all kinds love flowers; however, flower nectar and pollen can also serve as vectors for various pathogens (disease causing agents) that can spread between bees of different colonies using the same flowers. In fact, honey bees can even pick up and spread bumble bee diseases to different flowers and vice versa. What’s more,…
Arts & Crafts: Moo Moo Meadows
Check out this young explorer’s happy cow as it moseys through the meadow!
Sunday Sketch: Sounds like trouble
A sketch and fact about gray whale predator avoidance
Field Frame Friday: Watch where you step!
White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys) nest in small willows or pines, often right on the ground. The nests are really hard to find but are so important to my research! Most nests have 4 tiny speckled eggs. When we find them, we track them as the eggs hatch and the nestlings grow up. [Photo and caption…
Ask a Scientist: Beetles and Bacteria
Stealthy Shrimp asks, “How do bacteria take over a beetle’s body?“ Great question, Stealthy Shrimp! To answer this question, we should first think about the different relationships bacteria can form with beetles (and with insects in general). Some of these relationships are beneficial for both sides, while other relationships are only beneficial for one side….
Sunday Sketch: Seedy Work
A fact about the important ecological role played by brown bears
Field Frame Friday [Halloween edition]: Attack of the Clones!
Light bulb tunicates (Clavelina huntsmani), named for their bands of pink internal organs that resemble light bulb filaments, are a social species of tunicate (or more adorably known as “sea squirts”) that reproduce asexually so what you see here are red algae surrounding a little cluster or sea squirt clones! Spoooooky! [Photo and caption by…
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