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This semester I am doing fieldwork at the Trevor Zoo and thinking about how zoos are related to behaviour and conservation. The Trevor Zoo is a small but diverse and well-run collection of animals located at the Millbrook School in … Continue reading
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Evolution through natural selection spends on variation of a trait within a species. Variation of a certain trait that has implications for Darwinian fitness within a species can lead to a population level shift towards one phenotypic realization of the trait over … Continue reading
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On May 9th, Dr. Mary Ann Cunningham (from the Earth Science Department) and I headed out to the Vassar Farm and Ecological Preserve to participate in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Global Big Day (read more about that here). We … Continue reading
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Have you ever wondered what the best way is to get the attention of someone you fancy? Being too subtle could result in that person not noticing you, but being too overt could lead to unwanted attention from other suitors … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Jacob Damsky for presenting his thesis on the effects of anthropogenic noise on mobbing behavior in the tufted titmouse. Jacob was joined by 19 other Vassar Biology Seniors in presenting a wide array of interesting research! Best of … Continue reading
The Gall Lab, in collaboration with Walt Wilczynski at Georgia State University has just published a paper entitled “Hearing conspecific vocal signals alters peripheral auditory sensitivity”. But, what does that mean? Well, many animals (including humans) are exposed to the … Continue reading
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Have you ever asked a friend, “What you want to eat for lunch?” and they replied saying “I heard this place was really good, we should go here!” ?Using the friend’s information about certain restaurants, you are more likely to find … Continue reading
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BLOG #2 Peregrine Falcon song appears to be innate. Because the juveniles leave the nest early on and do not live in communities with many other raptor birds (they nest secluded with another parent), they do not learn their … Continue reading
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Michael Garcia Jeremy Middleman Biology 105: Singing Life of Birds Peregrine Falcon Blog Post #1 The Peregrine Falcon is a large Falcon that is the largest Falcon over most of North and South America. Characteristics to identify the bird are … Continue reading
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Jack Blomberg Partner: Jacob Goebel Blog Post #1 Final Draft The Chipping Sparrow, unlike many other sparrows which tend to live in grassland communities, prefers to live in the open woodlands, the borders of natural forest openings, edges of rivers and … Continue reading
