How do polar bears stay healthy on the world's worst diet?

Polar bears survive almost entirely on seal fat. Yet unlike humans who eat high-fat diets, polar bears never...

Hippos as sentinels: Detecting pollution and pathogens

In western Uganda, hippos move between land and the Kazinga Channel, making them ideal sentinels of ecosystem...

Documenting unique plant and insect species within Siskiyou County's biodiverse landscape

The biodiversity in Siskiyou County is inadequately documented because of prior inaccessibility. We seek...

Uncovering hidden insect diversity associated with a likely undescribed gall-forming midge

Does a likely undescribed species of gall-forming midge (pers. comm. Ray Gagné) on Eriodictyon plants (Yerba...

Moths from a flame: Surveying moth ecological succession as a factor of plant succession post-fire

I am studying the relationship between moths and plants in prescribed burned and unburned meadows at the...

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