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Written by an evolutionary biologist/ornithologist who writes about E3 -- Evolution, Ecology and Ethology -- and the subtle relationships between these phenomena, especially in birds.
GrrlScientist is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who loves to write about "E3": evolution, ethology and ecology and the subtle relationships between these fields, especially in birds.
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Category: Streaming videos
This is a rather nice video with a home-made feel to it. It presents a quick view of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, starting on the subway platform (filled with lots of tile art, all of which I've photographed). (I noticed that they seem to have finished refurbishing their Indians of the Pacific Northwet exhibit).
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Category: Streaming videos
This fascinating video shows scientists satellite tagging and tissue sampling a magnificent whale shark while it feeds at the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, a process that requires them to swim alongside these mysterious but gentle giants
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Category: Streaming videos
This video is a remarkable TEDTalk-like presentation that explores the evolution and classification of a giant flightless bird that was recently discovered living in NYC!
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Category: Journal Club
A zombie is another name for The Walking Dead -- those who are lifeless, apathetic, or totally lacking in independent judgment. But in an ecological sense, a zombie species no longer fulfills its ecological function because it is becoming extinct. This is a topic that I hope to explore further in another blog entry, but for now, today's zombie theme (my special "zombified" icon) and, well, vultures' delightful dining habits (they eat zombies) have inspired me to focus on them.
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Category: Streaming videos
This video tells the story of speciation in Central Africa's roiling, rapid Lower Congo River. This river is home to an extraordinary assortment of fish -- many truly bizarre. This new video by Science Bulletins, the American Museum of Natural History's current-science video program, features Museum scientists on a quest to understand why so many species have evolved here. Follow Curator of Ichthyology Melanie Stiassny and her team as they search the Lower Congo Rivers mysterious depths for an evolutionary driver.
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Category: Streaming videos
This video is the first of a new series of behind-the-scenes looks at the collections at the American Museum of Natural History. In this video, Melanie Stiassny, Axelrod Research Curator in the Department of Ichthyology, takes us through the Museum's vast collection of fishes.
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Category: Book Review
by Dennis McCarthy, this book examines the relationships between evolutionary biology and geography and shows how geography influences evolution
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Category: Streaming videos
Bird watchers (especially those who do most of their birding by ear) will particularly enjoy this video: Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.
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Category: Streaming videos
In his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to protect endangered animal species: giving nearby villagers (including former poachers) responsibility for caring for the animals. And it's working.
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Category: Journal Club
A recently published study, intended to provide data that would allow fisheries to reduce bycatch of Northern Bluefin Tuna in the Gulf of Mexico, suggests that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak -- located in the middle of Bluefin spawning areas -- suggests that the Deepwater Horizon oil leak may devastate the endangered Atlantic bluefin population, causing it to completely collapse or possibly go extinct
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