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.
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Self-professed spider-fan and arachnid systematist Stephany Arizala would like more people to study this megadiverse group, so that we can do a better job of protecting them.
The longest continuous study of euglossines in the tropics found relatively stable populations of these wild bees over four decades.
The accelerated proliferation of these woody vines, due to natural disturbance, is altering forest structure, regeneration and functioning
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.
Similar to human babies, this bat species learns to communicate through babbling and vocal imitation
Long-term monitoring of the bat species Saccopteryx bilineata in their natural setting revealed that pups display babbling behavior strikingly similar to that of human infants