Via #CTV - Nov 17, 2025

Researchers have captured vdo footage of wild #wolves in #BritishColumbia pulling crab traps out of sea by their lines 2 eat bait inside, in 1st evidence of possible tool use by the animals

Report released Monday in the scientific journal #EcologyAndEvolution by researchers #Kyle Artelle and #PaulPaquet says they placed cameras on the beach aimed at #Heiltsuk #FirstNation crab traps to work out what was repeatedly damaging them

#Science

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-wolves-use-line-to-pull-up-crab-traps-in-first-possible-tool-use-by-species/

#Popperian #ecology is a #delusion

#OpenAccess
#EcologyAndEvolution

"So-called Popperian ecologists have not only failed to use but have misused #Popper in their criticisms of ecology. Second, Popper's #falsificationism is an unsuitable philosophy of science for ecology. In other words, ecology should not be criticized nor evaluated from the Popperian perspective in the first place"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.11106

Camille Suzanne Delavaux discusses an Imposter syndrome in Academia on #nature #ecologyandevolution

https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/imposter-syndrome-an-inevitable-consequence-of-filling-so-many-different-niches?utm_source=newsletter_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
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#science #academia