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Throwback Creature Feature: Hawk moth
Check out this post from 2021! At first glance, the animal hovering near the flower looks like a hummingbird. She is colorful with whirring wings and can fly at speeds up to 25 miles per hour [1]. A...
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Field Frame Friday: A (rock) boring life
The purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) is a conspicuous native of rocky intertidal habitats along the western coast of North America. These spiky animals live in rock pits, which are...
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Sunday Sketch: The Delightfully Voracious Dragonfly
In their larval stage, dragonflies are voracious carnivores, consuming anything in their aquatic environment, including their siblings, fish, other insect larvae, and tadpoles. Adult dragonflies have...
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Sunday Sketch: Halloween Edition: The Ghostly Coyote
Coyotes (Canis latrans) are found throughout North America and are often regarded as dangerous pests due to their tendency to kill livestock and other domestic animals. They are territorial and can...
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Creature Feature Miniseries: The Species That Spook Us
Mini-feature 1: American Crow An American Crow bathing in the moonlight while roosting with its flock [Photo by Bryant Olsen]. As night approaches and the sky grows dim, an eerie feeling always creeps...
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The Species That Spook Us: House Centipede
Too many legs. It’s just got too many legs. The house centipede – a collection of long, bushy limbs on a striped brown body – is scampering across my floor with a velocity and visage that makes my...
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The Species That Spook Us: Ogre-faced, Net-casting Spider
The ogre-faced, net-casting spider (Deinopis spinosa) has a terrifying name and what has been described as a “circadian Jekyll and Hyde” lifestyle [1]. They hide during the day, appearing as mere...
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Field Frame Friday: Imp of Darkness
It’s easy to see how the Santa Cruz Black Salamander (Aneides niger) got its name. Have you ever seen a creature with such abyssal coloration? These pieces of living obsidian are endemic to the Santa...
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Sunday Sketch: Man’s Best Friend
Dogs have an excellent sense of smell, which they use to do multiple things such as detect food, find a suitable mate, and even sense human emotions such as happiness or fear. When exposed to the odor...
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Science Hero: Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Duque
It is the early 1970s in Argentina and the expansion of soybean cultivation and cattle ranching are leading to increasing deforestation rates. The Gran Chaco forest, an ecologically rich region...
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Newsroom: How to measure chicken behavior accurately
Have you ever wondered how scientists determine what behaviors animals have ? It’s not as simple as just looking at them —especially when researchers are working with large groups of animals, like...
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Sci Hero: Dr. Eduardo Fernández-Duque
The Ethogram believes that science should be accessible and diverse in order to increase the sense of belonging within the science community. As a part of our continuing effort to make science a more...
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Creature Feature: Cuvier’s Beaked Whale
At first glance, the inky black depths of the ocean seem inhospitable and unwelcoming. The crushing weight of the waters above coupled with the undeniably freezing temperatures seem to serve as an...
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Field Notes: You Are What You Study
A gray day darkens as the hands of the clock march along. The intermittent drizzles are becoming steady and ever louder. I pace back and forth between frequent stops to look out the window, and my...
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Field Frame Friday: Diamonds in the marsh
Now that we’ve lured you in with a cute baby turtle, let’s talk about conservation and science! The Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is a native of East Coast marshes and the only turtle in...
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Sunday Sketch: Terrific Turkey
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is often synonymous with autumn in North America, with the males’ striking tail fans and blue and red heads being especially iconic. Despite their large size and...
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Creature Feature: Corn earworm
This Thanksgiving, we’re taking a moment to share some gratitude for an aspect of animal behavior that, well, affects some of the platters one might come across during a typical Thanksgiving feast....
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Field Frame Friday: Staring mantis
Praying Mantids (Order Mantodea), like this Mediterranean Mantis* (Iris oratoria), are well-known for their awesome predatory strikes and cannibalistic tendencies. Our subject here is doing neither;...
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Field Notes: How Questions Develop During a Field Season from an...
Every undergraduate begins their college education expecting to gain knowledge, but gaining hands-on experience in the field is just as important as learning in the classroom. In the biological...
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Creature Feature: Blobfish
Behold! The ugliest fish in the world. The Blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is renowned for its wide, downturned grin, bulbous nose, and loose skin. But what if I told you that this isn’t its normal...
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