Ecology & Zoology

Prenatal High-Fat Diets Linked To Preference For Salty Food- In Female Rats

Many women eat healthier during pregnancy, but that may mean whatever version of 'healthy' is trending in any given year. Sugar-free, low-fat, gluten-free, paleo, organic, it all has proponents, it all has suspect epidemiology papers claiming it ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 26 2023 - 2:49pm

Giraffes In East Africa Are Geographically Isolated- That Doesn't Mean They Are Endangered

One way to keep a healthy genetic population is a diverse enough group that there can be a random exchange of material. If that is a big factor, then geographically isolated giraffes on preserves may be at future risk. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2023 - 2:08pm

Strawberries: Two Science Reasons They're Bigger And Better This Year

Environmental Working Group, the Extinction Rebellion of affordable produce, is always in a war on strawberries- unless they only contain pesticides their organic industry corporate donors use or sell. For the scientifically literate, those with at least t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2023 - 10:03am

Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior

Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows. ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 25 2023 - 5:02am

Weekend Science: Carp Sense Geomagnetic Fields

Czech researchers have hypothesized that carp in large tubs at Christmas markets possess a capacity to sense geomagnetic fields.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 28 2023 - 9:52am

Want More Milk? Name Your Cow, Says Study- And They're Serious

Name it and the milk will come, say scientists at Newcastle University.  It's not "Field of Dreams" it's Milk of Dreams.   Or whatever analogy you want to use for a correlation-causation fantasy that leads to a conclusion that a cow wit ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 27 2024 - 11:08am

Why Some Female Whales Live So Long: Menopause

Humans and five whale species are the only mammals known to go through menopause. Why is unclear but a new study sought answers. Scientists found that females of short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales and ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2024 - 2:16pm

First Nation Shell Middens And True Oysters

One of the now rare species of oysters in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympia oyster, Ostrea lurida, (Carpenter, 1864). While rare today, these are British Columbia’s only native oyster.  Had you been dining on their brethren in the 1800s or earlier, it w ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Mar 24 2024 - 10:40pm

Study: Fish With A Mirror Check Their Body Size Before Fights With Bigger Opponents

Researchers in Scientific Reports are claiming the first non-human instance of an animal possessing some mental states (e.g., mental body image, standards, intentions, goals), which are elements of private self-awareness. They show that Labroides dimidiatu ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2024 - 9:32am

Honeybees Are Boutique Agriculture: Here's What Keepers Want Almond Farmers To Do

Despite nearly two decades of marketing campaigns insisting bees are in decline and science is to blame, the data show otherwise. Bees are not entirely irrelevant in the food supply, and do valuable pollination work in nature, but there are 25,000 other sp ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 13 2025 - 2:46pm