Category Archives: Wildlife
Tour campus museums on Super Science Saturday, Feb. 2
The day before Super Bowl Sunday, take an afternoon for some super science museums. UC Davis’s second annual Biodiversity Museum Day will take place Saturday, February 2, from 1 to 4 pm. The event is a special opportunity to go …
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New Frog species found in exotic habitat…New York
It’s not every day that science adds a new vertebrate species, and you might think the likely place to find undiscovered animals would be a remote rainforest or island. But researchers from UC, Rutgers and the University of Alabama have …
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The Pentagon on campus, Gorilla health, fixing California: All in UC Davis Magazine
The Fall issue of UC Davis Magazine is now online with some great feature articles. There’s my story on the role of the Defense Department in funding research on campus — from breast cancer to electrical engineering. Clifton Parker talks …
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The eyes have it: Dinosaurs hunted by night
UC Davis scientists can now determine whether a dinosaur was active by day, by night or around the clock — if they can find a fossil with well-preserved eyebones. The research by geology professor Ryosuke Motani and Lars Schmitz, a …
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Hunting linked to lead in birds
Two new UC Davis studies add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.These scavenger species often take advantage of animal remains left behind when a hunter cleans a …
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Recent listening: Megafish and Jellyfish
Two fishy items on KXJZ-FM’s Insight recently: UC Davis graduate Zeb Hogan, now a research professor at the University of Nevada at Reno, talked about some very big fish that live in freshwater on today’s show. As a graduate student …
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Does evolution drive ecology? And a Science twofer
It’s widely accepted that ecology drives the evolution of new traits, but is the reverse also true? In the Jan. 28 issue of the journal Science, UC Davis expert Thomas Schoener describes growing evidence that it does, and explores what …
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The Department of Flattened Wildlife
UC Davis researchers have just completed the first year of a comprehensive survey of animals killed by traffic on California’s roads. Fraser Shilling, co-director of the UC Davis Road Ecology Center, has released the first year of data for the …
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Videos: UC Davis experts report on oil clean up, demo dispersants
Two videos on this page. Mike Ziccardi of the UC Davis Oiled Wildlife Care Network reports from the Gulf of Mexico from efforts to treat turtles, dolphins and other animals. The impact on the coast, he says, is “indescribable.” In …
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Must-read from the Gulf: How much is a turtle worth?
Michael Ziccardi, director of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network, has been blogging from the Gulf of Mexico where he his helping organize cleanup efforts. In this post Ziccardi discusses the costs of saving wildlife from oil spills. Wildlife rescue is …
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