Ecology & Zoology

A Model for Human Communications of the Future

The opening sentence of Wikipedia's article on the man seems fairly encompassing: Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer, public speaker, philosopher, psychonaut, ethnobotanist, art historian, and self-described anarchis ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Feb 13 2010 - 11:48pm

Squid On The Radio

Oh yeah, and my adivsor was totally on NPR yesterday, check it out. In terms of press coverage, we are so lucky that we work with charismatic, edible megafauna. ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Feb 14 2010 - 1:02am

Resilient Coral Reefs Could Survive Climate Change

The diversity of corals harboring unusual species of symbiotic algae in the warm waters of the Andaman Sea indicates that coral reefs and the ecosystems dependent on them may persist despite climate change, according to a new study in the Journal of Biogeo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

Cottontail Rabbit Maneuvers

My colleague, the Tortoise Cat, always attempts to alert me whenever a lone wild rabbit prances by our back steps in the wee-most moments of the dawn. But I have been too slow, so far, to catch even a fleeting glimpse of that cottontail bouncing away, into ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Feb 19 2010 - 9:12am

Jellies & Ants

About once a week, my legges taken me (in a Middle English sort of way) over to lunch in the common room of our Department of Agriculture, where a kindly member of staff leaves copies of journals for us to read.  One that has taken my interest recently is ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 17 2010 - 2:52pm

Kill The Spider- At Least Don't Let Your Brown Recluse Loose!

When I am out doing bug programs I am often asked (with a slow-down-to-look-at-an-accident wince); “where do you keep all these bugs? Do they stay at your house?” I explain about the shelves with the lights, or the bug room and usually digress into a shop ...

Article - Mark Berman - Feb 20 2010 - 11:55pm

Giant Squid In Aquariums By 2020?

What to look for in the next decade, as far as squid are concerned? Certainly new species will be discovered and described. Fisheries will probably spring up for species that have never been fished before. These will boom, and probably bust. But the real q ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Feb 22 2010 - 12:49am

Follow-up: Why Not to kill the Spider!

Here’s why you don’t kill the spider… why should you? The typical, first answer is that it bites. Or that it’s creepy. Or that it will crawl into your mouth at night… um… well – first things first. Spiders almost never bite people.  Many couldn’t if they t ...

Blog Post - Mark Berman - Feb 22 2010 - 6:47pm

Grizzlies Roaming Into Polar Bear Habitat

Biologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York have found that grizzly bears are roaming into what was traditionally thought of as polar bear habitat, the Canadian province of Manitoba, where they are officially ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm

Northern Climate Keeps Purple Loosestrife In Check

The flowering plant purple loosestrife- Lythrum salicaria- has been heading north since it was first introduced to the eastern seaboard from Europe 150 years ago. This exotic invader chokes out native species and has dramatically altered wetland habitats i ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2010 - 1:32pm