Weevil warriors
Is it Cheaper to be bigger? Lessons from the extreme weapons of giraffe weevil warriors
August 26, 2021
How can larger animals bear the increased energetic costs of maintaining disproportionately large weapons?
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Deceiving plumage
Female Hummingbirds look like males to avoid harassment
August 31, 2021
Colorful female Jacobins in the wild may feed more frequently and for longer periods than their drab counterparts
Marine Protected Areas
“The MPA Guide”: Local voices must be heard for effective ocean protection
September 13, 2021
The guide aims to be a clarifying, science-based framework guiding the global community in the establishment of Marine Protected Areas
Good News!
Recovery of the Juan Diaz mangroves
October 22, 2021
Over the last 50 years, since 1972, Panama has lost almost 50% of its mangroves primarily due to urban expansion and the conversion of mangroves into agricultural land.
Into the Spider-Verse
A young biologist shares her love for eight-legged creatures
December 21, 2021
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.
Home Science
First “Virtual Gigante” is a success
February 03, 2022
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.
Drone Pilot
Milton Garcia’s Bird’s-Eye-View
June 07, 2018
When he’s not racing his bike cross-country, Milton Garcia is in demand for his expertise flying drones. In the last month, he monitored mangrove deforestation on Panama’s Pacific coast, mapped a new research station in Coiba National Park and tracked blooming trees on Barro Colorado Island, the first plot in an international network of forest monitoring sites.
Fear of cats
Smelly ocelot habitats may scare off seed-dispersing rodents
February 24, 2022
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.
High seas
The first scientific expedition to Panama’s unexplored Cordillera de Coiba sets sail
April 26, 2022
Scientists, students and communicators from Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Spain will spend twelve days on the high seas exploring the biodiversity of Panama’s Cordillera de Coiba seamounts.
Baby biodiversity
“Python of the Sea” study highlights marine biodiversity underestimates
April 28, 2022
Most ocean life remains to be discovered. Because fish and many other animals that live in the ocean often have larvae or other, microscopic life stages that drift freely in ocean water, counting species by genetic barcoding of plankton samples adds to counts of species recorded as adults and is a highly efficient way to understand what lives in the ocean and how biodiversity changes as we modify the ocean environment.
