Tag: animals
How do we know when a species at risk has recovered?...
H. Resit Akcakaya, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
Around the world, animals and plants are disappearing at alarming rates. In May...
Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world
Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
About six months ago I stopped eating meat. I was teaching a graduate course at UCLA that investigated how Italian Renaissance...
Is winter miserable for wildlife?
Bridget B. Baker, Wayne State University
While the weather outside may indeed get frightful this winter, a parka, knit hat, wool socks, insulated boots and...
I used facial recognition technology on birds
Lewis Barnett, University of Richmond
As a birder, I had heard that if you paid careful attention to the head feathers on the downy woodpeckers...
How old is my pet in dog years or cat years?...
Jesse Grady, Mississippi State University
“Just how old do you think my dog is in dog years?” is a question I hear on a...
What is it about yawning?
Christine Calder, Mississippi State University
You know the feeling. It’s impossible to resist. You just need to yawn.
A yawn consists of an extended gaping of...
To avoid humans, more wildlife now work the night shift
Kaitlyn Gaynor, University of California, Berkeley
For their first 100 million years on planet Earth, our mammal ancestors relied on the cover of darkness to...
The slippery slope of dehumanizing language
Allison Skinner, Northwestern University
Comparing people to animals seems to increasingly be a part of our political discourse.
When Roseanne Barr tweeted that former White House...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
