For chickadees, memory is a product of natural selection
On the mountaintops of the Sierra Nevadas, mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli) create food caches to survive the winter, and they rely on their memories to find ...
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JWM: Winter conditions stress pronghorn the next summer
The Red Desert of south-central Wyoming has long been known for robust pronghorn populations, but in the last two decades, herds have diminished up to 30 percent. ...
Southeastern lizards adapt quickly to extreme weather
In one of the fastest, most well-documented instances of adaptation, lizards in the southeastern United States developed a tolerance to lower temperatures in ...
Porpoises found to frequent proposed Maryland windfarm site
According to most wildlife guides, harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) don’t typically range south of New Jersey. But recent research shows that during winter, ...
Wildlife may suffer from longer transition into spring
Marked by the increased availability of light, the vernal window is the time between the end of winter and the beginning of the growing season. Now research ...