Ecology of the Unseen

The Forest Predator You Rarely See: What the Tayra Reveals About Hidden Ecology

When most people imagine rainforest predators, they think of jaguars, harpy eagles, or anacondas. These are the animals that appear...

Most people see an army ant swarm as a moving mass of predators. Thousands of ants surge across the forest...

On a recent trip to research insect populations, I visited a small sliver of the Chihuahua desert that runs through...

Defining Biodiversity Species By some measures, worldwide biodiversity may be increasing. At the same time the rate of extinction, due...

Only a few years ago (2013 – 2015) most of the kelp forests of Northern California disappeared. Ninety percent of...

Sometime between 500 and 600 million years ago, the very first coral species appeared on earth. Of course, no one...

Madagascar is a land of wonders. Most species living on this, the World’s fourth largest island, are found nowhere else....

A new plastic ban is in effect in Pune, Maharashtra, located in western India. I visited in July, shortly after...

Nostalgic Days Do you miss the days when all you had to worry about when cutting the grass was a...

Vaquita Rescue Program Setback A rescue program to save the vaquita, the world’s most endangered cetation (whales, dolphins and porpoises),...

Painful stings leave an impression. Everyone who has ever been stung has a story to tell. Some of the stories...

Another species of marine mammal is on the verge of extinction. The Vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a small porpoise endemic to...