We’re at the moment within the Moist Season in Broome and we have now had loads of rain already this yr and there may be extra to come back. I…
Category: Zoology Blogs
The Moluccas Within the footsteps of Alfred Russel Wallace. The positioning of ‘the sudden flash of perception’ on pure choice
It’s not on a regular basis one has the chance to journey to the location of an occasion of such significance within the historical past of organic thought that the…
ON THE ROAD FOR GIANT TOADS
Creative illustration of a large toad (© Richard Svensson) Right this moment is the 14th anniversary of my ShukerNature weblog’s official launch (20 January 2009), so now, nearly 800…
Parallel City Adaptation from Phenotype to Genotype in Anolis Lizards – Anole Annals
Anoles are fashions for finding out evolution within the wild. Not solely do anoles have a historical past of repeatedly diversifying to specialise in the identical forms of microhabitats in…
Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – half 2 – 10,000 Birds
On the third day in Napo, the native driving me to a fowl cover was coughing quite a bit. And I used to be the one visitor in an in…
Interrupted flows within the Murray River endanger frogs
Flooding within the Murray-Darling Basin is creating splendid breeding situations for a lot of native species which have developed to benefit from non permanent flood situations. Led by PhD candidate…
Now That’s a Caterpillar. Wallace’s Golden Birdwing butterfly
At a butterfly farm on Bacan within the Moluccas, Wallace’s Golden Birdwing butterflies (Ornithoptera croesus) have been being bred. A really massive cage mesh cage was planted with meals vegetation…
Is the primary alleged document of Crested Macaques on the island of Bacan within the Moluccas in 1828 appropriate? Most likely not
Once I was writing the earlier article on the Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra) of the island of Bacan within the Moluccas, I got here throughout an anomaly within the data.…
Half 1 – AN AMERICAN ANOMALY
How can studies of phantom kangaroos and different out-of-place thriller macropods be defined? (public area) GENERAL INTRODUCTION Throughout the previous 35 years, I’ve written many a whole bunch…
Half 2 – ESCAPEES AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS
On the alert – an grownup jap gray kangaroo (© fir0002/Wikipedia – GFDL 1.2 licence) As revealed in Half 1 of this three-part ShukerNature article (click on right here…