Worth a thousand words
Amy Koehler transforms bat science into bat art
Octubre 30, 2020
Reshaping her interest in science into a career in art, Amy Koehler does what she loves best in the Bat Lab
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Masked singers
First Sightings of Lek and courtship behavior in wrinkle-faced bats
Noviembre 18, 2020
Male Wrinkle-faced bats lower a flap of skin resembling a face mask when they are ready to mate according to a rare sighting of a lek of bats in Costa Rica.
Doctor crocodile
In the footsteps of crocs
Noviembre 27, 2020
Crocodiles fulfill important functions in the ecosystems where they live, and they play a prominent role in the myths and legends of cultures around the world. Miryam Venegas-Anaya will share stories about years of field work in Panama with these fascinating reptiles to increase our understanding and appreciation of their diversity and behavior.
Bat Hormones
Male bats with high testosterone levels have large forearm crusts when females are fertile
Diciembre 17, 2020
Male Fringe-Lipped bats smear a sticky, odorous substance on their forearms. When this was discovered, researchers guessed that it might play a role in mating. Post-doctoral fellow Mariana Muñoz-Romo has confirmed that the presence and size of the forearm "crust" is, indeed correlated with other reproductive traits.
Foster care
Baby vampire bat adopted by mom’s best friend
Febrero 09, 2021
The strong relationship formed between two female adult vampire bats may have motivated one of the bats to adopt the other’s baby.
Breaches and Spy-hops
Informed tourists make whale watching safer for whales
Mayo 07, 2021
How does whale watching affect whale behavior? Who watches whales in Panama’s Las Perlas Archipelago? Researchers from STRI and ASU hope to recommend innovative data-based conservation strategies.
Kudos
Mary Jane West Eberhard receives Linnean Medal for Zoology
Junio 09, 2021
“Her unification of developmental plasticity and genetics is a huge advance in our understanding of evolution. Her decades-long work with tropical social wasps focusing on careful field observation is testimony to what a careful observer of natural history can contribute to evolutionary biology.”-the Linnean Society
Dark navigation
First report of dorsal navigation in a flying insect
Junio 14, 2021
Sweat bees navigate through dark tropical forests guided by canopy patterns.
Roadkill
Understanding wildlife vulnerability to road networks
Agosto 06, 2021
During three years, local scientist Dumas Gálvez drove along a road parallel to a rainforest looking out for dead vertebrates.
Can’t hear you!
Dolphin-Watching affects whistle frequency modulation in bottlenose dolphins
Junio 16, 2021
Picture this: What to do at a party when you try to carry on a conversation, but the music is too loud? A Panamanian doctoral student is trying to figure out how dolphins communicate underwater during heavy boat traffic in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago.
