Cool and Current Science
Some links to recent research showcasing interesting aspects of animals and ecology:
- Live cam on bat emergence from Bracken Cave
- Many species of mammals glow!
- Using facial recognition to identify individual brown bears
- Researchers observe an elephant shrew that hadn't been seen for >50 years
- The world's highest dwelling mammal is a South American mouse
- New species of mouse lemur described in Madagascar
- A musician uses bat calls in compositions
- First mammalian extinction due to human-induced climate change (Gynther et al. 2016)
- Why zebras have stripes (Caro et al. 2019, PLoS One)
- Fluoresence in flying squirrels! (Kohler et al. 2019, J. Mammalogy)
- New potential treatments for white-nose syndrome (National Geographic, Nov. 6, 2018)
- Using wing swabs to identify bat species (Player et al. 2017, Wildlife Society Bulletin,
- How kangaroo rats escape rattlesnakes (Whitford et al. 2017, Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.06.004)
- Why bats crash into buildings (Greif et al. 2017, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aam7817)
- Fossils of gliding mammals found in China (Meng et al. 2017, Nature DOI:10.1038/nature23476)
- Naked mole rats can live like plants without oxygen (Park et al. 2017, Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3896)
- Flight in bats is extremely complex (Ramezani et al. 2017, Science Robotics, DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aal2505
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