STRILights
Learning from Tropical Nature in 2018
Diciembre 20, 2018
Join us to celebrate a few of the discoveries made in 2018.
Join us to celebrate a few of the discoveries made in 2018.
A small bump in the ear canal of skulls from burials near the Gulf of Panama, may indicate that ancient coastal residents dove in icy waters to recover pearls and valuable orange Spondylus shells.
Long-distance migrations are common for large whales, but when in their evolutionary past did they begin to migrate and why? Fossil whale barnacles may have the answers
Fever may be less effective at repelling infections in cold-blooded creatures
Bats can find motionless insects on leaves in the dark. This was thought to be impossible, because the acoustic camouflage provided by the leaves should confuse their echolocation system. Inga Geipel and colleagues discovered how they overcome this problem.
In situ experiment on Great Barrier Reef tests future ocean acidification scenario
As some of the most savvy and sophisticated predators out there, bats eavesdrop on their prey and even on other bats to collect a wide variety of information about their prey.
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Hubert Szczygieł recently arrived at STRI in Panama and is already becoming one of Gamboa’s most awesome natural historians.