Smithsonian Year of Music
Where science meets music: a banjo player listens for the songs of katydids
Abril 17, 2019
What do playing the banjo and recording katydids have in common? We join Sharon Martinson on Barro Colorado Island to find out.
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Hormone Hang-Ups
Parasitoid Wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code
Abril 26, 2019
Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs on a spider’s back. This team proposes that by injecting the spider host with the molting hormone, ecdysone, the wasp induces the spider to make a special web for the wasp’s pupa.
President’s Prize
For the Love of Forests
Julio 25, 2019
Kristina Anderson-Teixeira receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work on the effects of climate change on the worlds’ forests.
Approach angle
Bats use leaves as mirrors to find their prey in the dark
Agosto 09, 2019
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.
Night hunters
Bats use private and social information as they hunt
Octubre 04, 2019
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.
Just like mom
Imprinting on mothers may drive speciation in poison dart frogs
Octubre 09, 2019
Imprinting on parental color may be more important than genetics when it comes to the evolution of new species.
Leadership models
What makes a good (primate) leader?
Octubre 17, 2019
Does a good leader have a better mental map of food in the forest? or is she simply driven by hunger?
Bound by blood
Vampire bat bonding persists from the lab to the wild
Octubre 31, 2019
Bats moved from a captive colony back to a tree stayed with their friends.
Yikes!
Venomous snake captures frog-eating bat
Noviembre 01, 2019
Hubert Szczygieł recently arrived at STRI in Panama and is already becoming one of Gamboa’s most awesome natural historians.
Hope for Chucunaque
First Jaguar in Panama fitted with GPS transmitter
Noviembre 29, 2019
After years of catching jaguars only in camera-trap images, Ricardo Moreno, STRI research associate and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and a team of 20 biologists and community members were able to catch a jaguar and fit it with a transmitter that will help researchers conserve these majestic cats in the wild.
