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Urban Wildlife Spotlight: The Gold Dust Day Gecko
This new feature on the blog will focus on urban introduced species across the globe, giving brief histories of where they came from, how they got where they are now & more on their ecology and evolution. The Gold Dust…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Golden Jackal
As we move from a city’s core to its outskirts, there seems to be a shift in the kinds of flora and fauna that we can capture with our cameras. Last week we showed flowers in the city center. This…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Bellflowers in Munich
Last week we brought you many plants found in the streets of Zurich. Plants can find ways to flourish in cities, with just enough space in the pavement cracks to grow. This week, bellflowers have been spotted in Munich. Do…
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Urban Observation of the Week: So Many Plants
Often when we see plants in the city they fall into one of two categories, weed or decorative. It is rare that we find plants that haven’t been purposefully planted that aren’t weeds. Here are some of the natural flora…
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Moving to the City: Morphology and Performance in Introduced Urban Lizards
Making the best of a difficult year With a group of other students here at Ohio Wesleyan University, I had successfully written a grant to research the common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) in the south of France for the summer…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Dumpster Diving Bear
As cities continue to encroach on natural landscapes, bear sightings have become more frequent. If you’ve ever been camping where there’s bears, you know that they have to design special trash bins to keep bears out. So what do we…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Beaver’s Going Places
Beavers are excellent builders. Similar to humans, they modify their environment to suit their needs, chomping down wood to build dams. Recently, this beaver was spotted at a subway station. Let’s hope it didn’t get lost on the subway line!…
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Evolution 2021! Day 5
The annual Evolution meeting (ASN, SSE, SSB) officially kicked off Monday (virtually)! If you are presenting, consider writing a short summary of your talk for the blog (as we have done in the past for in-person conferences). And if you’re…
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