Tag: experiment

Learning about neophobia—or the fear of new things—can help researchers figure out how to contribute to bringing back a bird species that’s nearly extinct from the wild in Indonesia. Only...

Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) are not like other marine mammals. Although, their whiskers are robust and thick like their seal and sea lion counterparts, they never traded their front paws for...

There have always been stories — and some research since the 1950s and ’60s — that murre (Uria aalge) eggs have a unique shape that allows them not to roll...

Mason bees are critical pollinators in the high deserts of Arizona, but climate change may drive them out of these and other warm regions as temperatures climb. “They might be...