What are whiskers for? How do they work? And what can we learn from them? @RobynAnneGrant explains in our latest video with @BBCIdeas, with the help of some porcupines!
Filmed this morning by Jean Louis Kakoua Atsima, the DTA at @Parcs_Gabon, this elephant is feeding on aquatic plants in the Ivindo River above Koungou Falls - in the Ivindo World Héritage Site.
Exciting new paper in Evolution @journal_evo by the Frommen Lab (@MMUEcolEnv) highlighting how age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness shape the structure of highly cooperative fish societies in the wild.
https://t.co/XYDaE42cl8
I tweeted about my irritation with mainstream nature conservation the other day, and it prompted some interest. I've now written a blog: 'Time to Get Angry: Beyond the Cosy Consensus in British Nature Conservation'. https://t.co/35rlbdIjSS. Please have a read.
WOWZERS! Awesome footage of Kestrel vs Hobby at the Stow Maries nest box with @DenisStr Possibly one of the most incredible things I have captured!
See the other clips on my blog:
https://t.co/096NeO2fON
@ChrisGPackham@Hawkandowluk@Natures_Voice@BBCSpringwatch @SIBirdClub
Watching another moorland burn in @peakdistrict from my house. So frustrating to watch this while in a meeting about wetland restoration and carbon sequestration @TimBirchWild#Glossop
I am delighted that my review on familiarity as a cue to kinship in social birds has been selected for the
@FrontEcolEvol 2020 Highlights. It's a pleasure for this to feature alongside other excellent research published in a very challenging year #Ecology https://t.co/9MNmwkgkaT
@marcel_gil @stevie_evans1 @macstronach @xenocanto I have a female bullfinch saved from a cat last spring. I can confirm she sings her heart out every day
Dutch radar reveals mass southward movements of birds in response to frost and snow. The interesting thing, to me, is that birds only seem to move after conditions deteriorate. If they would be able to predict such cold events you'd expect them to start moving sooner, right?