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Animated Animals and Their Impact on Wildlife Awareness
If you grew up watching animated movies, you likely remember that breathless feeling of sadness as Simba mourned the loss of his father or the heartbreak when Bambi’s mother was killed by a hunter....
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Throwback Sunday Sketch: Penguin Pals
Penguins exhibit what is called “bi-parental care,” which is where both parents cooperate to care for their babies. They will take turns watching over their nest, and one parent will leave to retrieve...
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Field Frame Friday: Snow on the beach
Every time I go home to New Jersey for break, I make sure to stop at Barnegat Lighthouse State Park. There’s something really nice about visiting the same place season after season and watching the...
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Sunday Sketch: The Stunning Snowy Owl
Young male snowy owls have dark brown barring, which fades as they grow older, making them whiter over time. They live in the tundra, so their coloring helps them blend in while stalking prey. Art and...
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Creature Feature: Sociable weaver
In the deserts of southern Africa, there’s a bird that doesn’t just build a nest—it builds an entire city. Meet the sociable weaver (Philetairus socius), whose constructive ingenuity overshadows their...
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Newsroom: Bees Have Learning Styles Just Like Us
How do you learn? Most of us learn something every day, even if we don’t realize it. We might learn how to fix our faucet, where the nearest store is, or even just a fun fact about honeybees...
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Arts & Crafts: Remarkable Reindeer!
Have you ever met a reindeer? These animals are found in snowy places all over the world, although they aren’t always called by the same name. In the United States and Canada, a wild reindeer is...
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Field Frame Friday: A fantabulous fox
While this fox is both gray and red, it is neither a Gray Fox nor a Red Fox! Like them, it can be found in California, but only on six islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, and nowhere else in the...
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Field Notes: Monkey Spit
It’s hard to find a professional way to tell people that I’m a monkey trainer. On paper, I’m a graduate student, but I spent most of the summer and fall of 2024 training monkeys to chew on swabs so I...
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Throwback Creature Feature: Fire Salamander
Check out this post from 2019! The charismatic fire salamander. [Source] We’ve seen psychedelic reptiles on this blog before. Surely, you may be thinking, the pool of psychedelic species is...
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Newsroom: The impact of social housing on calf responses to novel foods...
We have all heard the common phrase “lions, tigers, bears, oh my!” from Dorothy’s fears of entering the forest and encountering the cowardly lion, but have you heard “apples, carrots, friends, oh my?”...
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Arts & Crafts: Happy World Hippo Day (Feb. 15th)!
February 15th is World Hippo Day, so celebrate these amazing animals by learning some cool facts about them! To start, Hippopotamuses spend a lot of time in water, even though they cannot actually...
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Field Frame Friday: From egg to fledgling in just four weeks
How do birds choose a place that will allow them to keep their chicks safe from the time the first egg is laid until the last fledgling flies away? For chickadees, including the Black-capped...
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Sunday Sketch: The Fast Flying Peregrine Falcon
Peregrine falcons are incredibly fast fliers, capable of reaching speeds of up to 112 km/h or 69 mph when chasing prey. Art and fact by Cloude Shao, Instagram @cloude_paint [Edited by Nicole...
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Field Notes: Hot and cold – field work explorations during a gap year and...
I’m walking on the beach, sun beating down on my head, sweat soaking the back of my shirt. I avert my eyes from the bright sunlight, but even so, my eyes hurt from the glare reflecting off the sea and...
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Creature Feature Miniseries: Love is Wild (Episode 1, Gentoo Penguin)
This Valentine’s Day season, we’re bringing you tales of romance from all across the animal kingdom! We’re kicking things off with the Gentoo penguin in the hopes that your Valentine’s Day… rocks. ///...
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Love Is Wild! Episode 2: Date Ideas from the Animal Kingdom
Hey there! Did you need inspiration for a Valentine’s Day activity? Then look no further than our curated list from the animal kingdom. Cute Valentine’s Day Dates: Bald Eagles: Group skydiving Photo...
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Sunday Sketch: Market Squid
Market squid lay their eggs before the end of their lifespan, attaching them to the ocean floor. This anchoring exposes the eggs to ocean currents, facilitating gas exchange for the developing...
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Science Heroes: Inza Koné
“I wish that the general public knew that any single scientific undertaking is a wonderful human adventure. It connects people from different cultures, different backgrounds, different interests, and...
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Field Frame Friday: Egg-cellent chicks
As they vanish from shelves and their prices skyrocket, everyone has eggs on the brain. But today, let’s talk about the animal that hatches out of them! Chickens are the most abundant domesticated...
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