by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Parental care
By David Han ’21 Nursing as a part of maternal care has long been considered the exclusive domain of mammals, at least in popular media. Most invertebrate mothers, the popular wisdom goes, employ an extreme version of tough love; newly-hatched insects and...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Sensory systems
By Julia Borys ’22 Individual animals often use alarm signals from their own species (conspecifics) to respond to the presence of a threat. By employing a mechanism such as this, the individual has a better chance of avoiding harm. Freshwater fish are known to...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Camouflage
By Ben Berejka ’20 When picturing nocturnal predators, most people would envision darkly colored and cryptic monsters creeping through the shadows, but a recent study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution describes the opposite. Researchers observed that...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Urban ecology
By Jaryd Jones ’22 If you’ve spent just about any time in New York City then you’ve probably seen more pigeons here than almost anywhere in the world. These birds, specifically called rock doves (or “rats with wings” depending on who you ask) have come to be a...
by 2019 Class | Oct 19, 2020 | Urban ecology
By Zachary LaRocca-Stravalle ’22 Imagine yourself taking a stroll through rural New Mexico: open, grassy fields, patches of juniper trees among the cane cholla and prickly pear, and blue skies over the distant Sangre de Cristo Mountains. A scenic view. Now you...
