Ecology & Zoology

Why Mass Popularity Will Make Organic Food More Expensive

There is a Chinese middle class for the first time ever and they have decided to avoid their numerous conventional food scares by opting for organic food scares. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 4 2012 - 4:01pm

Western Scrub-Jays Eulogize Their Dead

When Western scrub jays summon others to screech over the body of a dead jay, they come a'runnin', and those 'funerals' can last for up to half an hour. But why?  Western scrub jays live in breeding pairs and are not particularly social ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2012 - 7:53pm

Why Killer Whales Stay Alive After Menopause: Their Sons Are Mommy's Boys?

An international team of scientists say they may have discovered why female killer whales have the longest menopause of any non-human species- it could be they worry about their adult sons. New research says that males over 30 have an almost 14-fold chance ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2012 - 5:30am

In Beetle Sex, Sometimes Going On Defense Wins Too

Combat traits usually get most of the attention from researchers, because they are thought to have arisen due to intense male-male competition for access to females. Large, elaborate weapons become the focus of sexual selection studies because the connecti ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2012 - 10:49am

Downside To Organic Farming: 90% Losses From Pests Modern Science Defeats Easily

While organic farmers like to claim the boom in agriculture of the last 30 years was not related to science, history says otherwise.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 4:03pm

The swarm of little crabs on sandy beach

I had one of a kind experience when I went to a very beautiful  beach in south Andaman. The whole beach was populated with the sand crabs,  Ocipode quadrata, the ghost crab,  Dotilla myctiroides  , soldier crab and the most important  Dotilla clepsydrodact ...

Blog Post - Puneeta Pandey - Oct 1 2012 - 12:12am

And The Best Designer On The Beach Award Goes To...

Thinking of some amazing organisms in a sandy beach, the sand bubbler crab always comes in mind. Dotilla clepsydrodactylus,  the sand bubbler crab, is the one crab which makes the beaches more beautiful by displaying its marvelous art.   While walking   o ...

Article - Puneeta Pandey - Oct 21 2012 - 12:04am

Scavenging Cephalopods: Mild-Mannered Vampire Squid Just Want To Eat Waste

A couple of weeks ago ago, a debate about the existence of scavenging cephalopods broke out on the cephalopod mailing list. A few days later, such a creature appeared in the news as if conjured! A grad student had e-mailed the ceph-list because he’d found ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 3 2012 - 2:41pm

Governments Set To Tackle International Shark Trade

Seven species of vulnerable sharks and manta rays have now been submitted by 35 countries for consideration for protection next year under an international treaty concerned with regulating wildlife trade. Governments met the deadline today and formally su ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2012 - 5:00am

So where is the recent information on marine mammals in Indian waters!

In India most of the marine mammal records come from stranding and accidental catch in trawls and purse seine. There are two main habitat of marine mammals in India, (1) Arabian Sea on the western coast with a wide continental shelf and constant salinity, ...

Blog Post - Puneeta Pandey - Oct 7 2012 - 7:49am