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Urban Observation of the Week: Graffiti Anoles
When a wall is painted over many times, it will start to have layers peel off. These cracks in the paint apparently make a great hideout for anoles. Do you have a photo or video of an urban species doing…
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Where’s the Restroom?
Earlier this week, the wonderful women over at Women of Fisheries posted about the struggles of going to the bathroom when doing fieldwork on a boat. They point out that going to the bathroom can be especially uncomfortable for women…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Rat in the Engine
When your car isn’t running as smoothly as it used to, you take it into the car shop to get it checked out. Most of the time, there’s some component that got old and needs to be replaced. Sometimes, there’s…
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What is an urban pest?
Earlier this week I showed you the pair of turkeys lurking in my neighbourhood. I was quite annoyed with them, they blocked my car from getting to my driveway when I really needed to get inside ASAP. These birds yelled…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Street Turkeys
There have been multiple sightings of these two turkeys in my neighborhood. I was trying to get home and these two just stayed in the middle of the street, blocking my way. These turkeys are HUGE and have zero fear…
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How to Study Urban Speciation
Given the right conditions, life in the city might just lead to speciation. Wouter Halfwerk digs into the potential for and evidence of urban speciation in his latest paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Halfwerk points out that many studies…
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Urban Observation of the Week: Red Tailed Hawk in NYC
Pigeons are one of the most common, iconic birds we see in cities. Did you know that pigeons are prey for larger, predatory birds? We like Red-tailed hawks so much they’ve been featured as our urban observation multiple times. Here,…
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Recap: The Finer Points of Urban Adaptation
In August 2020, I recently published my first first-author paper about urban Anolis lizard claws! I have previously written about my research after doing field work and presenting at my university’s science symposium. I’m excited to report that the results are…
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