Archive for the ‘Plants & animals’ Category


Raising (Whooping) Crane - Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Ultralight aircraft are guiding crane chicks toward Florida wintering grounds. Dangers remain, but it’s a step ahead for Americas’ largest flying bird, once reduced to 21 animals.



Imitation: Better than flattery? - Thursday, August 13th, 2009

Imitation is a social glue in human society. We like people who imitate us. We call them friend. We will even tip them better! A new study finds similar responses in monkeys…



Animal arms race - Thursday, July 16th, 2009

The struggle between predator and prey never ends. Bats invented sonar, and now some moths are fighting back. Check out the Why Files acoustic-organic warfare, airborne edition.



History of fishing - Thursday, May 28th, 2009

A new study finds a surprising number of fish, birds and mammals in the oceans 100 and 1,000 years ago. Can this information help regulators slow the decline of important marine animals?



Counting birds - Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

The feds put out a massive report on American birds, and the #1 source of data is – amateurs! What is the role of amateurs in ornithology? Hint: if you want to survey 800 species on 3.5 million square miles…



After the chimp attack - Thursday, March 5th, 2009

We explore the sad saga of pet primates. Are these pets psychologically good for us? For them? Are humans and other primates trading diseases at home, and in the wild?



Life of the locust: Biblical plague explained - Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Locusts live a solitary life — until their bodies suddenly change, and they swarm into clouds of destructive insects. A new study fingers the trigger for this transformation.



Bush creates huge Pacific reserves - Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Three giant new reserves, extend 50 miles out from shore, will protect coral reefs, fish, clams, and other life forms. But how effective are marine protected areas?



Life during the “other” Big Bang! - Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Did the arrival of 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons of space junk start the formation of organic molecules roughly 4 billion years ago? “Could be,” says a new study from Japan…



Assembly-lines don’t work for ants! - Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Specialization may work in factories, but it does not make ant colonies more efficient. As the conventional wisdom about social insects goes topsy-turvy, what’s an ecologist to think?


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