Jan 31, 2016 | Natural History Blog
Read this gorgeous, enlightening story (What Does a Parrot Know about PTSD, by Charles Siebert) and you’ll never look at birds and mammals in the same way. Simply put, PTSD is not unique to humans. An excerpt: “Though the avian cerebrum possesses only the...
Jan 30, 2016 | Conservation Biology, Mammal Evolution, Natural History Blog
I’ve always been dismayed at how much humans living in the US deplore opossums (Didelphis virginianus). I don’t understand this. They are, evolutionarily speaking, true survivors – the only marsupial species that remains in the US from the...
Jan 29, 2016 | Conservation Biology, Natural History Blog
Check out my most recent blog – published on the Journal for Environment and Society’s blog site: EnviroSociety.org Lambert, Joanna E. 2016. “Regeneration of Human-Modified Landscapes and the Irony of Antipathy toward Resilient Animal Species.”...
Nov 18, 2014 | Mammal Evolution, Natural History Blog
On November 29th, the Smithsonian Channel will air a special entitled “How to Clone a Woolly Mammoth”. This episode is based on the remarkable 2013 discovery in Siberia of an almost complete woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius); they named her Buttercup....
Nov 18, 2014 | Natural History Blog
Its been a big week for Space. I am hugely supportive of NASA, ESA and anything to do with space exploration. I also adore science fiction. I was thus thrilled that in the past week I was able to see Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar AND watch with wonder as the...
Nov 12, 2014 | Natural History Blog
“…in wildness is the preservation of the world . Life consists of wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued by man, its presence refreshes him. . . . When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the...
