10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 6, 2011
Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Clever buggers those real scientists.
Critter News
MARCH 28, 2010
I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2014
But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C.
Reddit Animals
JULY 12, 2023
While I am a science geek through and through (chemical compounds and reactions are very interesting). I love spiders, I've owned many snakes as pets, my favorite mammal is arguably the Opposum (I think they're so cute, whereas here in the south people hate them and dont understand their importance), bats, frogs, all animals really.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 2, 2024
And there is diversity in charisma–few people can resist an Emperor Penguin or a Secretary Bird, but common birds like Indian Myna and Black-crowned Night Heron also get their due respect. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E. Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!)
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2015
Flight has evolved multiple times; it has emerged in lizards, snakes, fish, bats, maybe bats again, distant relatives of primates, regular primates, rodents, and a few other unlikely taxa, in a rather half baked fashion, not “true” flight. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293].
10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. But the jawbone…that was from a bat! Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. It was either a big brown bat or a hoary bat.
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