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Brookesia desperata, photographed by Frank Glaw
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Guest Post: Snakes From Central India and Maharashtra
Vivek Sharma, who works as a freelance photographer, documentary maker, and snake expert, has shared four different snakes (including two venomous species) from Central India and Maharashtra with everyone and your jaw is going to hit the floor when you see the photos!
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This Week in Nature – TWiN Edition 5
Now Out In the wild! for Sunday 15th April 2012! This week: What about those Melons! with Tim Neary and his Nature Journal. Plus: A new direction on Oil Spill research and plenty of monkey business and four letter words!
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Herpin’ Time Radio: Field Herping with Bob Ferguson
Bob Ferguson president of the north east chapter of the North American Field Herpers Association NAFHA joins us this episode to flip some rocks and talk a little field herping.
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The influence of traditional Buddhist wildlife release on biological invasions
An understanding of anthropogenic factors influencing wildlife invasions is crucial to development of comprehensive prevention and management strategies. However, little attention has been paid to the role religious practice plays in biological invasions. The tradition of wildlife release is prevalent in many areas around the world where Asian religions are influential and is hypothesized to promote species invasions, although quantitative evidence is lacking.
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Why letting salmon escape could benefit bears and fishers
New research suggests that allowing more Pacific salmon to spawn in coastal streams will not only benefit the natural environment, including grizzly bears, but could also lead to more salmon in the ocean and thus larger salmon harvests in the long term—a win-win for ecosystems and humans. In a new article and accompanying synopsis published April 10 in the online, open-access journalPLoS Biology, Taal Levi and co-authors from UC Santa Cruz and Canada investigate how increasing “escapement”—the number of salmon [...]
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