Here’s a look back at this week in science, with stories you don’t want to miss. I’m reminded this week of the exquisite precision of nature and the complexity of its interrelatedness. It doesn’t take an awful lot… just a few degrees here, a small shift in a current there… to upset the applecart. Climate […]
Costs of the wild: how scientists measure lion behavior to learn what it takes to survive
Catching and tagging wildlife is hard enough. But Chris Wilmers, an associate professor at UC Santa Cruz, whose lab studies wildlife ecology and global change, studies big carnivores, and he and his team want to know more than just where they are. He wants to know what it costs them to stay alive. “Moving around […]
The thorny ethics of hybrid animals
One of the greatest movies of all time, Napoleon Dynamite, introduced many to the scientific concept of hybridization: Ligers, the hybrid offspring of lions and tigers, are real, though their “skills in magic” are still under investigation by top scientists. The creatures are likely only man-made creatures, since the habitats of these two big cats only overlaps […]
Why Cuba Is Home To A Bounty of Rare Species
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