by Shoba Narayan | Aug 29, 2021 | Species
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Emily Duval whose Duval lab at Florida State University studies behavioral ecology, population genetics, and in the role of sexual selection in speciation. Multiple mating, where one female bird copulates with more than one male is...
by Shoba Narayan | May 9, 2021 | Issue, Person
“By the time a bar-tailed godwits dies, it would have flown to the moon and most of the way back,” says ornithologist and author Scott Weidensaul. A bar-tailed godwit flies 18,000 miles a year. By the time it dies, it will have flown closer to 500,000...