Weevil warriors
Is it Cheaper to be bigger? Lessons from the extreme weapons of giraffe weevil warriors
Agosto 26, 2021
How can larger animals bear the increased energetic costs of maintaining disproportionately large weapons?
How can larger animals bear the increased energetic costs of maintaining disproportionately large weapons?
A mobile hearing test determined that the hearing sensitivity of Neotropical bats is associated with the sounds generated by their prey, demonstrating how hearing ability may relate directly to niche differentiation.
The guide aims to be a clarifying, science-based framework guiding the global community in the establishment of Marine Protected Areas
Coral reefs in the Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) are exposed to a broad range of environmental conditions defined by the upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep ocean. Regional variation in upwelling activity along the TEP make it an ideal natural laboratory to understand the importance of changing environmental conditions for reef health and resiliency. Watch Panamanian scientist Andrew Sellers explain the aims of the ambitious Rohr Reef Resilience (RRR) Project, and his experience in recent research expeditions to the Panamanian and Costa Rican Pacific.
Genetic population connectivity study of the endangered whale shark in Pacific Panama provides important data for conservation efforts.
A virtual forum organized by the IDB and STRI explored Panama’s challenges and opportunities to achieve a sustainable management of its marine resources that stimulates economic development, sustains livelihoods and preserves biodiversity.
A group of high school students describe how Azteca alfari ants respond to damage to their host plant
After being taught annually for three decades, the Smithsonian Introductory Field Life Sciences Course was suspended due to the pandemic, but it made a digital comeback in 2021.
An experiment in Panama’s Parque Natural Metropolitano and Gamboa revealed that agoutis were less likely to disperse and pilfer seeds in sites where ferocious felines roam.
The use of submersibles exponentially increased recorded diversity of islands’ deep-reef fish faunas.