How do bats handle unnatural noise?
Frog-hunting bats overcome noisy environments by switching sensory channels
September 15, 2016
A discovery by a Smithsonian intern in Panama is published by the journal Science.
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Lex talionis
Punishment enforces cooperation in the fig-wasp mutualism: The exception proves the rule
August 02, 2021
Mutually beneficial relationships are common, but what happens when one partner stops enforcing the other’s good behavior?
Learning to fly
Mother bats may nudge pups to grow up
October 26, 2018
As winged mammals, baby bats learn to fly and stop drinking mothers’ milk during their transition from infants to flying juveniles. Bat researchers observed a new behavior. Mothers push pups away with their forearms, perhaps encouraging them to go explore the world on their own
Real vampires!
The Vampire Bat
October 21, 2022
Celebrating International Bat Week, come learn about real vampires!
Animals reforest
Animals are key to restoring the world’s forests
December 02, 2022
Animals will help restore tropical forests if people locate reforestation projects near existing forest reserves and control hunting.
Gallant Storyteller
Anthony G. Coates, Senior Scientist Emeritus (1936-2022)
December 15, 2022
Geologist Tony Coates changed the way we think about the ground under our feet. He confirmed the date when North and South America were connected at about 3 million years ago. We remember Tony not only as a skilled field geologist, but as a kind person and storyteller, who captured the imagination of scientists and non-scientists alike with his ability to spin a tale.
Profile: Anthony Coates
Sea of fossils
August 09, 2013
A Smithsonian emeritus scientist takes a field trip to some of Panama’s most important known marine fossil deposits for a quick lesson the age of the Ithsmus of Panama.
TRóPICOS
Color and Vision
October 10, 2019
Art and science on the same wavelength
Caribbean asphyxiation
Desperate brittlestars, suffocating corals and resilient microbes: First multidisciplinary data from an acute marine hypoxic event and its historical context
July 29, 2021
In September 2017, divers observed a massive “dead zone” rising to envelop Caribbean coral reefs in Bocas del Toro, Panama. Smithsonian post-docs joined together to understand marine hypoxia now and in the past.
Confined
Isolation led white-faced capuchin monkeys into the Stone Age
July 21, 2020
After 14 thousand years of living in confinement and without the threat of predators, the white-faced capuchin monkeys on the Coiba National Park islands have begun to exhibit behaviors that have not been recorded in the mainland populations. For example, they are highly terrestrial and have learned to use stones as tools. Listen to doctoral student in animal behavior and former STRI fellow, Claudio Monteza, tell us this story.
