Photo by scientist Indraneil Das of newly-discovered frog species A new pea-sized frog species has been discovered on Borneo! Scientists from the University of Malaysia Sarawak found the tiny frogs living in and around tubular carnivorous plants called pitcher plants. The tadpoles grow in the water inside the plants. Although the water contains enzymes that [...]
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Posted in Wildlife on Nov 11th, 2009
A Great Student Opportunity In June of 2009, Ken and I helped out with a biodiversity survey in South Africa. Most of the researchers were undergraduates from universities in the U.S. All of them had already taken a semester-long ecology course in South Africa offered by the Organization for Tropical Studies or OTS, whose home [...]
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All photos and text by Sally Kneidel, PhD, of sallykneidel.com I had fun this week. To my joy, I was twice asked to retrieve or rescue a little animal in a bad situation. One was an Anolis lizard on my neighbors’ living-room curtain. It took me about just a few seconds to nudge her into [...]
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