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Female Southern Pied Babblers Get Stupider As They Produce More Offspring
"Having lots of children isn’t all it’s cracked up to be"
#birds #ornithology #reproduction #cognition https://medium.com/grrlscientist/female-southern-pied-babblers-get-stupider-as-they-produce-more-offspring-eaef702e50f7
Climate Change And Land Use Changes Threaten Native Bee Populations
"Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations"
#bees #landuse #ecology #ClimateCrisis #HabitatDestruction https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/climate-change-and-land-use-changes
Why Do Treehoppers Have Such Bizarro Body Shapes? study out of University of Bristol, published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Treehoppers detect electrical fields emitted by their predators and may also distinguish between electrical fields emitted by their predators and friendly insects"
#insects #morphology #evolution #electroreception #StaticElectricity https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2025/08/08/why-do-treehoppers-have-such-bizarro-body-shapes/
Three For The Price Of One: Genomics Reveals Three Distinct Cockatoo Species
"An international collaboration of scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could positively impact the conservation of three iconic yellow-crested white cockatoo species"
#parrots #cockatoos #birds #NewSpecies #genomics #CrypticSpecies #Endangered #conservation https://medium.com/grrlscientist/three-for-the-price-of-one-genomics-reveals-three-distinct-cockatoo-species-bd76745cfc81
Nerves Of Steel: Canada Geese Don’t Flee Far From Gun-Toting Hunters
"Can a wildlife management area support both wildlife and human recreational opportunities, particularly hunting?"
#hunting #CanadaGeese #birds #waterfowl #behavior #Wildlife #Conservation https://medium.com/grrlscientist/nerves-of-steel-canada-geese-dont-flee-far-from-gun-toting-hunters-9a398a819a52
Return To The Sky By Tina Morris — Review
"A moving memoir by one of the first women to ever lead a raptor reintroduction project."
#books #memoir #BaldEagle #birds #ornithology #Reintroduction #endangeredSpecies https://medium.com/grrlscientist/return-to-the-sky-by-tina-morris-review-767d37825e30
This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
"New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack’ or ‘ultrablack’, absorbing nearly all visible and ultraviolet light."
#insect #superblack #ultrablack #entomology #VelvetAnt #color #ecology #evolution https://medium.com/grrlscientist/this-velvet-ant-provides-new-insights-into-natures-ultrablack-secrets-0f582f43878c
just in time for montana's massive wolf slaughter
How Wolves Change Rivers
"Wolves are top predators that have far-reaching beneficial effects upon entire ecosystems -- including the structure of rivers."
#ecology #wolves #elk #Yellowstone #rivers #video #science https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-wolves-change-rivers
New Species Of Lovebird Discovered In The Cradle Of Humankind
"An international team of paleontologists unearthed fossilized bones of a new species of lovebird from three caves in the South African UNESCO World Heritage site known as the Cradle of Humankind"
#birds #Ornithology #parrots #evolution #fossils #NewSpecies https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/new-species-of-lovebird-discovered
Red parrot feathers resist bacterial degradation
"Why do parrots have such brightly colored feathers? There are lots of evolutionary reasons, but now you can add one more to the list: bright pigments resist bacterial degradation"
#pigments #feathers #microbiology #bacteria #evolution #parrots #ornithology https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/red-parrot-feathers-resist-bacterial
